materials vs shadersMaterials on Renderer

Unity Engine
1

I have my material switching, however, when it switches, the shader automatically switches back from the prefab setting of Transparency/Diffuse to regular Diffuse, I have soured the forums for a solution but not sure where else to look…

	GameObject g;
	public Material t0,t1,t2,t3,t4,t5;

	void Start () {
		g = this.gameObject;	
		int i =Random.Range(0,6);
		switch(i)
		{
		case 0:
			g.renderer.material=t0;
			break;
		case 1:
			g.renderer.material=t1;
			break;
		case 2:
			g.renderer.material=t2;
			break;
		case 3:
			g.renderer.material=t3;
			break;
		case 4:
			g.renderer.material=t4;
			break;
		case 5: 
			g.renderer.material=t5;
			break;
		}
	}

I don’t want the shader to change when I just change the material.

2

Never mind, figured it out…

	public Material t0,t1,t2,t3,t4,t5;

	void Start () {
		g = this.gameObject;	
		int i =Random.Range(0,6);
		switch(i)
		{
		case 0:
			g.renderer.sharedMaterials[0]=t0;
			break;
		case 1:
			g.renderer.sharedMaterials[0]=t1;
			break;
		case 2:
			g.renderer.sharedMaterials[0]=t2;
			break;
		case 3:
			g.renderer.sharedMaterials[0]=t3;
			break;
		case 4:
			g.renderer.sharedMaterials[0]=t4;
			break;
		case 5: 
			g.renderer.sharedMaterials[0]=t5;
			break;
		}
	}
3

Don’t you love it when you post a question and then right after you figure it out?

4

Ok well it still is a problem, I thought that fixed it but now it is ignoring my new material and using the default material…
SIGH

Such a headache for such a simple thing…

5

Ok, I have tried every angle at this point so it has to be some sort of bug, You can’t change the material without loosing the shader that was assigned, I just want all materials to use the Transparency/Diffuse shader, but there really doesn’t appear to be a way to do it in code but instead I have to make a prefab for every object which is ridiculous. Does anyone have any suggestions other than me having to do prefabs instead of just swapping materials?