Simple animated texture - where to start? [SOLVED]

Hello folks,

I want to learn how to animate a texture on a gameObject. Here's the situation:

I've made a little model. Say hello to the door computer!



The model was made and UV mapped in Blender, then exported as FBX:



What I'd like to do is get to the point where the bottom set of coloured lights appear to change colour. How would I go about doing this?

Should I be messing around changing UV cords somehow?
Or can I swap out / change materials on a loop?

Thanks!

 

I would separate the buttons and make this task more modular : scroll a simple texture slowly

• 9x quads
• a new material using a 32x32 texture, each pixel a unique color
• scale down each quad to a single point in UV space
• distribute them into the 3x3 pattern so they use different UV space
• set the texture repeats (0.3, 0.3) and turn filtering off
• scroll the texture over time diagonally such as 3U : 1V

 

Thanks for the suggestion! I can certainly see the approach which is to treat all the squares individually, however the process outlined was way over my head.

In the end I setup a simple IEnumerator and changed the overall texture at runtime using renderer.material.mainTexture. This achieved the desired effect!