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Material not updating

Discussion in 'General Graphics' started by vatara, Apr 5, 2015.

  1. vatara

    vatara

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    I was inspired by this post of a CrazyBump-like tool made in Unity and decided to try making one myself.

    I'm generating the height/normal/etc maps using RenderTextures and assigning those to the material. The problem is, the material doesn't show these changes until I deselect/select the material or GameObject in the editor or make a manual change to the material in the editor.

    Once I have done this, the in-game changes work fine. I'm really not sure what is causing this, anyone have any ideas? I put the project up at: https://github.com/vatara/unity-texture-tool
     
    vatara, Apr 5, 2015
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  2. vatara

    vatara

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    I found the solution in this thread: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/creating-materials-at-runtime.316395/

    "That was exactly it. I had no textures assigned to the height/normal/metallic/occlusion maps, so that part of the shader wasn't getting enabled. To fix it, I just assigned empty(white/gray/black) textures to the material at compile time."
     
    vatara, Apr 5, 2015
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