Level issues

Hi all,

I have a simple side scrolling shooter with two levels, they are almost identical apart from backgrounds at the moment so I created one, then duplicated and renamed, changing the background textures on the second one.

The problem is every time I change the background on one the other magically changes too. Any idea how to stop this or what solution I can do other than have to not duplicate levels?

 

I suppose that you are changing the texture of a material which represents your background. If you have duplicated it, the two background are referencing/using the same material. When you change its texture, it will be updated to all others renderer that uses this material.

You need to create a new material which contains your second texture and apply it to one of your two background. You will have two distinct materials with their own textures.

 

I fixed it by creating new named backgrounds but i think your method would have been simpler. Am I right in thinking you would just change the material in the mesh renderer to the correct texture?

 

Yes, that's it !

Another method would be to create a script that initialize the material.mainTexture with a custom texture that you put in the inspector. It would automatically create another instance of the current material and apply the new texture to it. Downside is that you can't visualize it outside Play mode.