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Accessing Material by name from Renderer

Discussion in 'Editor & General Support' started by littlelingo, Dec 22, 2006.

  1. littlelingo

    littlelingo

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    Hiya,

    I have a GO which has mutliple materials assigned to it. I would like to access these materials by name without iterating through sharedMaterials. Does anyone know if this could be done and how?

    Thanks for the help!

    -- Clint
     
    littlelingo, Dec 22, 2006
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  2. Joachim_Ante

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    You have to iterate through them if you want to find it by name.
     
    Joachim_Ante, Dec 22, 2006
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  3. littlelingo

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    Okay... Great thanks Jo!

    Regards,

    -- Clint
     
    littlelingo, Dec 22, 2006
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  4. Aras

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    Of course you don't have to do this everywhere. Just write yourself a helper function that given a Renderer and material's name will find and return the needed one, or return null if none found.
     
    Aras, Dec 22, 2006
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  5. littlelingo

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    Good thought Aras!

    My concern is iterating through this list will have some impact on performance as I am currently not sure how often a change to a material will be required.

    Thanks!

    -- Clint
     
    littlelingo, Dec 22, 2006
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  6. Aras

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    Come on, do you have hundreds of materials per object and want to find them thousands of times per frame? I guess not.
     
    Aras, Dec 22, 2006
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