Material Overrides not doing anything?

Basically, I am spawning a bunch of cubes and I want them to share a material but I want each to have a different color.

The cube prefab has a material with a HDRP shadergraph on it with an exposed property with reference "_Color".

Then I have a component like this to modify color,

Code (CSharp):

1. [Serializable]
2. [MaterialProperty("_Color", MaterialPropertyFormat.Float4)]
3. public struct ColorOverride : IComponentData
4. {
5.     public float4 Value;
6. }

When spawning all the cubes I do this,

Code (CSharp):

1. Entity newNodeEntity = entityManager.Instantiate( nodeEntityPrefab );
2.  
3.         ColorOverride colorOverride = new ColorOverride()
4.         {
5.             Value = colorF
6.         };
7.         entityManager.AddComponentData( newNodeEntity, colorOverride );

For some reason this doesn't do anything and the color is just the same as the default for the material.

Can anyone help with this? The only documentation for current versions is for doing it with the premade material override object which does not allow you to modify color via code.

 

Try "_BaseColor" instead of "_Color". Your code looks good for me just check if the property name is correct.

 

I'll give it a shot but I don't think this is the issue because the property/reference name is "_Color"

 

There's are poorly-named checkbox in the shader graph property that I think is called "Override References" or something like that. If you check it, it adds more settings, one of which lets you choose the property to be per hybrid instance. Also make sure that the reference name isn't some weird hash but the actual _Color. That is different from the property name.

 

Your code looks good (as long as your shader color name matches the _Color). Here's a step that I have had to do each time I start a new build.

Right-click in your assets folder
-Create
-Rendering
-High Definition Render Pipeline Asset

Name it whatever you want
In Project Settings
-Graphics
Add this new asset to the "Scriptable Render Pipeline Settings"

Restart Unity

 

This did it!!!! I had to check "Override Property Declaration" and set "Shader Declaration" to "Hybrid Per Instance". Been having headaches about this issue for over a month...