[Solved]how to transition between textures

Unity Engine
1

Is there a way in unity to gradually fade from one texture or material to another (on a mesh)? I’m aware of renderer.material.mainTexture = newTex; but that happens instantly. I would prefer to gradually fade from one to the other over time.

2

Sorry to bump, but I would really appreciate an answer on this, even if its just “Unity definitely can’t do that” or “Unity should be able to do that, but it’s complicated and I can’t help”.

3

Blend_2_Textures here you go :wink:

4

Thanks! I’m not very familiar with shaders though, and I’m having trouble adjusting the Blend value through scripts. If I declare a variable of type BlendShader (which is what I called the shader in that link):

private var blendShader : BlendShader;
//private var blendShader : Shader;

function Start()
{
	blendShader = gameObject.renderer.material.shader;
	
}

function Update () 
{
	blendShader.Blend = Time.time * .1;
}

I get the error: "The name ‘BlendShader’ does not denote a valid type. "

If I declare the variable of type Shader instead of BlendShader, I get the message “‘Blend’ is not a member of ‘UnityEngine.Shader’.”

Like I said, I don’t really have any experience with shaders, so I’m probably going about this the wrong way. I looked through the manual on shaders but it only seemed to describe how to create them, but not anything about adjusting them during gameplay. Any advice is much appreciated.

5

You can set Shader properties within the Material

gameObject.renderer.material.SetFloat(“Blend”, VALUE);

Check out the Sets and Gets

6

Thanks, that got it.