Third Party Material issue with Photon

Hi,
i am instantiating some characters from Prefabs/Resources folder, they already have a material set but when Photon instanciates them they appear in magenta color like in the picture attached.

I used the same code to instanciate another character prefab and it worked well, the only difference with the above is that the material is in a Resources folder, while the prefab with the issue has a material not in Resources.

Am i required to put also the material in Resources otherwise Photon will not set it properly?

 

I guess you have to put these the materials with the character in a Resources folder.
Actually, I never stumbled over this, but it makes sense. Internally, this is loaded as Resource.

If that's a major problem, we can find ways around that.

 

I've tried moving the material to resources but when the character was spawned, the instance had no material even if the prefab was linked to the material in resources.

I had to set the material by script.
Well at least it worked in some way

Thanks