Material vs. SharedMaterial - difference in SETTING?

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1

Just checking since I can’t seem to find a definitive answer.

The difference between GETTING material vs sharedMaterial is obvious - the former creates a copy, the latter references the asset.

Is there any difference at all when SETTING / assigning the material? Like,

public Material materialAsset;
public MeshRenderer meshRendererA;
public MeshRenderer meshRendererB;

private void Start() {
    // assign material to renderer A 
    meshRendererA.material = materialAsset;
    // and now assign it to renderer B 
    meshRendererB.sharedMaterial = materialAsset;
}

Will there be any difference between the two?

Away from my work computer atm, hence unable to check myself.

Thanks!

2

No, there is no difference. Both properties call the same internal method SetMaterial. Though their getters use different methods. All those internal methods are implemented in native code.