How to change a child's shader to another shader?

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Hello,

So I’ve got some objects I’ve created on the fly representing my player’s units. I’d like to change the unit’s color based on who the unit belongs to. I’ve created a dark purple shader and tried applying it to the child object of my script like such:

this.gameObject.transform.GetChild (0).GetComponent<Renderer> ().materials [0].shader = Shader.Find ("PlayerTwo");

Unfortunately the code above changes the cube to a bright pink color. I’ve tried other colors (red, orange, etc…) to make sure it isn’t a lighting problem… but to no avail.

Example cube: http://nerd.guru/paste/Unity_2016-03-19_21-17-50.png

What am I doing wrong?

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Hi,

Bright pink means shader error. Look in your console. Most probably it cannot find the shader by the name you specified.

However, instead you should pre-make all kinds of materials you are going to use in the scene, set up all the colors and variables, and in runtime you call this on the child object:

.GetComponent().sharedMaterial = thatPremadeMaterialYouMade;