How to change physics material at runtime?

Unity Engine
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please write example code that changes a capsule colliders physics material from “playerFriction” to “playerSlide”. I’m seriously not getting this and all the other threads are from 2013 with all of the code being deprecated.

2

I’m like 95% sure nothing has changed with the APIs for Colliders and PhysicMaterials in at least 10 years.

There is some example code right on this page for how to create a physicmaterial and assign it to a collider:

3

Nice, that’s not what the old guides say. So I already have a physics material I want to apply, how would I “load” it in the script so I can apply it? Do I have to create the physics materials in the script? can it not pull the ones I created from my project file?

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You can create a public/serialized PhysicMaterial field and reference it in your script like any other unity object such as Textures, Meshes, Components, etc…

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    public class Foo : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public PhysicMaterial someMaterial; //assigned in the editor

        public void ChangeMaterial()
        {
            var collider = GetComponent<Collider>();
            collider.sharedMaterial = someMaterial;
        }
    }
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