Unity 2D: Spriterenderer or Material??

Hi guys,

So far, I created a sprite from the texture and using it in the sprite renderer component of my game object.
But, what is the difference if I use directly the texture as a material? In this way I don't have to create a sprite.

What is the best to do? Is it performance?

Thanks in advance

 

It's doing basicly the same thing behind the scene when render time comes using the default shaders. It's probably just faster and easier in to make.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-SpriteRenderer.html

If you look at the Rendering description

 

Thank you.. I'll go for the easy way

 

Actually depending on the shader you use it makes a big difference. A sprite has a texture associated with it and all the sprite shaders use it. If you try to create a Texture and set it to the SpriteRender's material's texture nothing will happen. the Sprite Shaders ignore the texture of your material and directly use the texture on the sprite.

 

I didn't know that... thank you!