how to solve shader/texture problem: putting white icons on colored planes

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hi there!

I want to generate some colored planes with some white icons on it. my approach was that I have a texture-map where the white icon lies on a black background. now in the material of the plane I want a shader to use the color input to colorize the black background of the texture while the white icon is still white.

is this possible? thanx!

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No, you'll have to use two separate textures. The color value of a material influences the whole texture, not specific parts of it.

My approach would to be to create a plane for the background, and separate planes for the buttons.