Resolved Sprite loses shape when applying material

On the right is the original sprite, on the left is the sprite with an emissive material applied.



How can I keep the correct shape while still having it glow?

Even if there was a way I could edit the shape on the left that would be great.

TIA

 

When you use sprites in Unity, Unity will create a simple mesh to render the sprite on to. It's only roughly shaped, but normally you don't notice because the default sprite shader uses the sprite image map's alpha channel to make unnecessary parts in the mesh invisible. I think when you switched materials, you're now seeing just the raw mesh without sprite's transparency applied.

I'm guessing that's what it is, anyway.

If you are using the standard shader for emissiveness,though, all you need to do is set the rendering mode to "cut-out" and it will use your sprite's alpha channel for transparency that same as the sprite shader.

 

Thanks.

Unfortunately I'm using URP/Lit on the shader. When I switch to standard it just goes purple.

 

I don't really know URP, really, but for the URP shader, try changing the "surface type" to transparent and then set the "blend mode" to alpha. Maybe that's the closest thing?

 

Unfortunately that doesn't work either. I've decided it doesn't really need to glow. It's only on screen for a split second and looks fine as it is tbh.

Thank you for your help though!