Particle Renderer - multiple materials?

Unity Engine
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hey - just after some direction on how to apply different materials to a particle renderer?

In the Inspector, you can add numerous materials to the Materials array.

I tried to apply this a couple of ways:
theEffect is a Transform cast from Instantiate()

theEffect.GetComponent<ParticleRenderer>().material = theEffect.GetComponent<ParticleRenderer>().materials[0];

theEffect.renderer.material = theEffect.renderer.materials[0];

Neither actually change the material of the Particle Renderer - or rather, the feedback I see in the game is that no material has changed.

What is the correct approach to this?
Cheers!

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Anyone?

Further looking into this, it seems that indeed the materials are changing but I’m seeing no visual confirmation of this… do we need to “apply” the material?

Where exactly does a ParticleRenderer get it’s material from?

theEffect.renderer.material = theEffect.renderer.materials[0];
print(theEffect.renderer.material.name);
print(theEffect.GetComponent<ParticleRenderer>().material.name);

This code returns expected results in the Log - that is, as I assign a material from materials[ ] it is reflected as changed when I print out the name on both the GameObject renderer and the ParticleRenderer.material

Why isn’t the particle rendering drawing with the newly assigned material? Is this a bug?

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The above should work. If it does not, please file a bug with a small project that shows the issue.