Question Changing material color through object parent.

So, I'm making a project where cubes can be generated in runtime with different parameters. The relevant parts of it are the cube's color and text that is suspended above the cube using a canvas and several textmeshpro labels.

During runtime at program start, I am changing the cubes color with the following code;

MeshRenderer ren = GetComponentInChildren<MeshRenderer>();
Color dieColor = new Color(r, g, b);
ren.material.color = dieColor;

The code is run from an empty parent object and the cube is a child(so is the canvas. The cube and canvas are not children of each other, just the empty parent object).

The problem is that the color is rendered over the text from the canvas. This only happens because of me changing the material color. How can I get it so the material color isn't rendered above everything else?

(Also in case it isn't obvious: I am very new to unity and coding for it in general so I expect I made some stupid goofs here.)

 

Screenshots would help. The only thing that I can figure from this is that your shaders for text and cube do not sort properly, likely because one is set to transparent and the other is opaque, but I'm not sure why setting the cube's material color would provoke this behavior.

Also do not use

material

property, use

sharedMaterial

instead. (

material

will clone the existing material, sometimes you want this to happen if you want to affect just one instance, but usually you just want to change the color.)