How to make a button that changes a texture of an object?

Unity Engine
1

Hey, I have a cube that when you press on it, it does something…
and I have a ball and I want to change his texture by pressing on the cube.
what do I need to write? I tried many scripts and they only changed the texture on the cube and not on the ball.
I use javascript but if you must use c# then use it.
Thanks :slight_smile:

(The 1,2,3,4 are the buttons or cubes that when they pressed they should change the texture of the ball).

2

Can you show the code?

Most likely you just need to add reference to the sphere:
var mySphere;

then assign the sphere into that at inspector,

then you can change the material for sphere:
mySphere.renderer.material.mainTexture = your_texture;

3

I would recommend switching between materials rather than textures.

You could attach a script similar to the following to each of your cube buttons:

using UnityEngine;

public class SkinSelectorButton : MonoBehaviour {

    // Reference to the sphere object.
    public GameObject sphere;
    // The material that is to be selected.
    public Material skinMaterial;

    private void OnMouseDown() {
        sphere.renderer.sharedMaterial = skinMaterial;
    }

}

Associate your sphere object with each button along with the material associated with each button.

I hope that this helps!

4

Bump

5

I did what you do and I assigned the ball and the material and when i click on the cube nothing happens…

6

Did you assign the variables in the inspector?

7

Yes:

8

You did put the script on the buttons right?
all 3 of them?
with different materials assigned to ‘SkinMaterial’?

9

I put the script only on one to test it out.

10

Do your cube buttons have colliders attached?

11

yes,

Can I just send you the scene and you can check whats wrong with it?

12

Please help me guys

13

Put the scripts on all 3 buttons.
Now put 3 DIFFERENT materials as SkinMaterial.

14

10000 thanks, great code, works perfect!!. I spend the whole day searching for the solution to this

15

I’m pretty lost here trying to follow what to do. I’m doing something similar, I have 1 object, and I want to be able to change between 2 different materials for that object to render. I have two buttons. I wrote a script called solidView, and a script called transparentView. In the inspector I’ve set solidView to a “Button1”, and transparentView to “Button2”. Inside the inspector I’ve set the same object for each button. What next?

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Please share your code, using Code Tags.