How to create a renderer prgrammatically?

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1

I have a lot of objects that have no renderer attached and I need to set the object’s colours at run-time.

object.renderer = new Renderer(); doesnt seem to work…

this is the error i get → Assets/ColouringScript.cs(15,32): error CS0200: Property or indexer `UnityEngine.GameObject.renderer’ cannot be assigned to (it is read only)

2

you can use

gameObject.AddComponent("MeshRenderer");

http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/ScriptReference/GameObject.AddComponent.html

(Renderer is an ABSTRACT class, which means it cannot be added directly, you need to add a class which derives from it)

3

FYI, the updated way to add a renderer is now gameObject.AddComponent().
The IDE told me the (“T”) version was deprecated.
Thank you, @Seth-Bergman for leading me to the door of the answer!