Issues with changing color on Sprite-Lit-Default material on Mesh Renderer

Currently I have a Mesh Renderer using the

Sprite-Lit-Default

material. Unfortunately, the Mesh Renderer does not have a color parameter like the Sprite Renderer does, so I thought I'd try changing the color through script. I tried both

someSpriteRenderer.material.color = someColor;

and

someSpriteRenderer.material.SetColor("_Color", someColor);

but neither worked. However, both showed that a change had been when then debugging

someSpriteRenderer.material.color

or

someSpriteRenderer.material.GetColor("_Color")

, although there was no visual change in color in the scene. The only lead I've found in terms of finding a solution is the fact that changing the color works when the material is

Sprites-Default

, but not when it is

Sprite-Lit-Default

. Any thoughts on fixing this? I've currently have my project set up with Unity 2019.3.0f6 and Universal RP 7.1.8. Thanks in advance!

 

i have same problem

 

I fixed it by making a custom shader graph that is essentially a

Sprite-Lit-Default

clone. Hopefully they fix this soon!

 

Same problem for me. Do we know if this is being worked on?

 

Frankly, I doubt it. It's a pretty niche problem, but for now I guess one will just have to make a custom shader

 

Same for me with Unity 2019.3.3f1. I'm glad I found this post, so I can spend time on the workaround instead.

 

Any chance you could post the shader you wrote? I'd like to save myself that effort if possible. Thanks.

 

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can you please post that shader? I'm completely lost

 

Yeah not sure what the point is to telling the world you fixed it by creating a shader and then not sharing it. Thats kind of rude.

 

so probably not the greatest way, but definitely the laziest:
1) find the Sprite-Lit-Default shader (recommended to make a copy of it)
2) open in editor and delete the HideInInspector attribute for RendererColor
3) go on to live a colorful life

or if you just want to do it in code, the parameter name is
RendererColor

 

Hi I am pretty new to Unity and this is my first day ever working with shaders. I think I might have fixed this issue and am sharing it here for anyone who runs into this issue. If the problem was not fixed I apologize because it's been barely hours since i looked into what shaders are. the Unity version I am using is 2020.1.10f1 and it worked for me in that version with URP 10.5.1. Also Make sure what you want to change is material color not Sprite color because sprite color can be changed by calling SpriteRenderer.colorMethod.