Scripting: changing texture/material of an instance

[anon_55268127]

Hello all!

I have made many attempts at this without success. The answer may be obvious but I have not been able to find it. Any help would be appreciated!

We have a function in which several (7) clones of the same model are instantiated. We would like to then to change the textures of these clones.

Thank you!

Rick

var prefab : GameObject;

function placeLetters () {

      //Clone first leaf
      var pos = Vector3 (12.4, 34.8, -1.5);
      var leaf = Instantiate(prefab, pos, Quaternion.identity);
     leaf.name = ("letter_leaf_S");
     //Change its texture / shader
     // HELP!

}

[anon_57584935]

Haven’t tried it out, but in the Unity Manual (http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/printable.html) there’s a bit in the Advanced part under

SL-ShaderReplacement

Some rendering effects require rendering a scene with a different set of shaders. For example, good edge detection would need a texture with scene normals, so it could detect edges where surface orientations differ. Other effects might need a texture with scene depth, and so on. To achieve this, it is possible to render the scene with replaced shaders of all objects.

Shader replacement is done from scripting using Camera.RenderWithShader or Camera.SetReplacementShader functions. Both functions take a shader and a replacementTag.

Hope this helps.
Hermit

[anon_55268127]

Thank you for the tip Hermit. I will look into it.

[anon_57490457]

Also look at this (short) thread:
http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=21414