Questions tagged [materials]
A definition of physical and/or visual characteristics of a surface, often for use with rendering software or a game engine.
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What game objects can have a “material”?
In Unity, I created an empty GameObject called "Person". I created some child objects to it, such as "head" (a sphere), "body" (a capsule), "leg" (a box), etc. Then, I wanted to change the person's ...
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Can I “subtract” the current image from a previous one inside a UE material?
In Unreal Engine, I am trying to create an effect that essentially involves the following operation: If I have an image at time instant t, I want to compute the per-pixel difference between that image ...
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Unity Animated Materials Won't Preview
I'm looking for help 'cause I just got into this issue with Unity 2019.2.8f1 and I don't know how (if possible) to fix it.
I probably should mention that I upgraded this project from Unity 2019.1.0f2 ...
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Simulate Unlit Shader using Physically Base Material Shader
Is there a way to have a physically based material shader look like an unlit shader?
Note: this question is not unity specific. I am trying to understand in general if it is possible to maybe(?) set ...
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UE4 - UProceduralMeshComponent - texturing issues
I am having a lot of trouble texturing a procedural mesh in UE4. I am using perlin noise from Accidental Noise Library with PolyVox to generate randomized marching cube terrain.
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Unity 3D - Materials are Stretching and Tiling doesn't Help
I am a programming student working with Unity 3D, version 2018.4.6f1 for this class. I wanted to add some materials to my wall, however, this results in a rather ugly result, because my walls are of ...
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Blender-Unity (+ Lightmaps): Can I (should I?) have multiple UV maps for a single mesh?
I am making a game that I worry is not running optimally due to lots of high-res textures. The irony is that most scene assets use the same materials but I have to (do I?) unwrap the entire mesh on a ...
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What goes into a realistic wood material?
Aside from getting a wood texture to use for albedo, what goes into a realistic wood material? For example, in Unity, there are settings such as Metallic and Smoothness, and different shader types ...
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Material becomes undefined when I create a prefab in Unity
I have a parent GameObject and nested models in it. When I create a prefab, I lose contact with the material in some parts of the model. Why is this happening? And how to avoid this?
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How to make a Material that looks like a sun
I am trying to understand material and shaders in Unity.
I would like to make a material to attach to a sphere, and make it emit light like a sun. For the moment I do not care if it's not looking ...
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How to access random material in a renderer besides first without cloning any materials except accessed one?
Clones only first material:
renderer.material
Clones all materials in the same renderer:
renderer.materials[0]
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How to Convert Sprite into Texture
I Have image with a sprite and i want to change this image sprite to Texture so that I can assign it to the material And i don't want to keep multiple copies for each image as a sprite and texture.
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Draw textured circle / 2D shape in SceneKit
I have the following code to create a circle Path and a SCNShape from this path. orbit_gradient.png is a horizontal 1px high image that represents a gradient.
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Why does changing Texture of Particle System using Material Property Block changes texture, but Particle System is still emitting old texture?
I try the code in Start, checking in Editor shows new texture, but Particle System still emits old texture. The script works for SpriteRenderer, but not ParticleSystem. I tried to Play/Stop emission - ...
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Material in particle system is not showing in dark area
I am working on a muzzle flash with particle system where when the user fires the gun the material in the particle system will appear. The problem is that is shows really well in light but when the ...
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Asset with blinking lights/buttons for Unity?
I'm working on a number of assets that will have blinking lights on them. I'm trying to determine how best to set these up for use in Unity.
For example, if I have a control panel with light-up ...
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How to make a texture appear the same way in a cube?
My problem seems so simple, that before asking the question here I did a search on google and this site:
https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/content-creation/33665-applying-and-...
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How to set keys for emission on/off for a prefab?
I am making a prototype for a Mario game and am having difficulty completing a canned animation for a prefab. There is an item box asset that has 3 materials and an "ItemGet" animation. One of these ...
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how to make UI material ignore scene lighting, have same brightness as albedo?
I have a material on a quad surface object that is parented to a canvas for a pause menu. The material is animated (materials on UI elements such as canvases cannot be animated because of [reasons], ...
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How to reference a GameObject from the Scene Hierarchy in C#?
I am a novice in Unity. I have a Game Object named 'courtsuit'; you can see it in my Scene Hierarchy panel here:
I added that object instance to my scene by dragging an OBJ file from my Project ...
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How can I update my materials to work with LWRP?
I'm using Unity 2019.1.6f1.
When I open a new scene with the LWRP template project, I see errors from all materials in the scene. For example, the Jigsaw appears in my scene but in console window I ...
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How can I change a materials properties in my Unity c# code?
Hello everyone I want to change my materials tiling offset in code, but the only way I found to access it other than drag-dropping to a public field in inspector is to check by name. But I then ...
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UV mapping a playing card in Maya for use in Unity (using a SpriteSheet of all the playing cards). One Material or Two?
I am wanting to make a pack of cards in Unity and Maya. I am familiar with UV unwrapping in Maya, but I never used sprite sheet for my models i unwrapped. (They all just fit onto one texture so far).
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How to add material to a blueprint created?
My project has a cube and a capsule.
Below you can see an inserted cube of the modes tab. Beside a capsule inserted from a blueprint created by me:
I can drag the material I created and use it in ...
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How to use alpha channel with emission?
I am trying to assemble scene assets and one asset needs an emission material where only the white part emits light:
I set up a texture with a simple (air-quotes) "mask" for the window...
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Black and white textures load as turquoise?
I have some black and white, and some grayscale textures, that are loading in unity as turquoise and white textures. What is causing this and how can I fix this? Also, can somebody verify that I am ...
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Blender Cycles materials not showing in Second Life
I ran into a problem after trying to import my own creation into second life. While I am not new to 3D modelling with Blender and other programs, I have always only created things for fun. Now I have ...
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Unity - importing Blender materials
Could someone help me understand something? I'm a bit confused as to why Unity doesn't import simple coloured materials over from a .blend file. If I select my character model that I've brought into ...
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Mesh Rendere and Materia “Sprites/Diffuse”
I'm trying to create a 2d scene with lighting. The system works by applying a
material Sprites/Diffuse to the Sprite Renderers ...
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Textures go black when changing Quality Settings at runtime
Whenever I change my Quality Settings at runtime in editor mode or in build, all of my textures turn black. I use the following line to change the quality settings :
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Drawing a helix effect in Unreal
i want to draw/graph an equation(like sinusoidal signal or any parametric equation) in UE4. I don't know if that is possible. I looked for it but found almost nothing. here is what i found most ...
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Material slot is reversed in unity when importing .blend file?
I'm importing .blend file into unity. The file contains 9 separate objects. Now all objects have the same 2 materials assigned. When importing in unity one object's material slot is reversed. But in ...
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Unity HDRP Testing - Scene View Issues / Lighting / Shaders / Shadows
Yo Guys.
Makings this dope, GlassChess Game, Wanted to try out the new HDPR in unity 2018, add the package and volia, its working. (done all settings)
So I used custom glass shader before trying out ...
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Whats the least expensive way to play video in unity?
Alright, Ive asked this various ways but my situation is I have several (over 100) objects that have screens that need to play animated videos on them. There does not need to be sound, but this is for ...
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What are AO / NM / D / SG texture name equivalents in Unity
I'm not a modeler and i don't know how to match each texture with the requested ones by the material.
In one side i got unity:
And in the other, this model textures:
The only references that i ...
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Unity 2019 Extremely Reflective Foliage
I've been working on a project involving a lot of foliage and I needed translucency so I upgraded to the latest unity beta to get access to the new features and the HDRP (which is still available on ...
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Unity: how to mimic the lighting of a mesh as seen in the editor view
I have a camera which shows a "bird's eye view" of a procedurally generated mesh like so:
Currently in the editor view (right), the terrain looks exactly as I would like it to. However, in game (left)...
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how to set multiple materials using array in the submesh of an object
I'm trying to insert multiple materials into the object's submesh using the array, but I'm not getting
public GameObject[] obj;
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Easily get several materials from different objects onto 1 UV map/material?
Im trying to improve performance, and I found an asset called https://forum.unity.com/threads/one-batch-combine-hundreds-of-materials-into-one-draw-call.555643/ that claims to do what I need - which ...
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Creating materials in modeling program vs in Unity: when to do either?
This is something I should know the answer to by now, so I'm asking to clear up the gaps in my knowledge:
As I (re)learn about shaders, specifically in relation to Unity, I see all sorts of ways to ...
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Recreating Common “Glowing Pillar” Effect in UE4
I've noticed a common "glowing pillar beacon" effect in a few games lately (Overwatch, Fortnite, etc). The effect provides a translucent glowing beam pointing upwards that tapers off towards the top ...
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How to download material files (including shaders) from external source on runtime?
My game has a lot of different materials, shaders and textures. When a bunch of players are dropped into the same game, I want those assets to be loaded from an external source instead of being built ...
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How can I blend meshes together where they intersect?
In a lot of my scenes I have things like this:
and this:
All the places I've circled are places where a prefab overlaps with another one or with the terrain.
Is there any way to make those lines ...
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Sprite brighter than texture
I have imported a new texture into UE, and have created a new sprite. I have setup the material of the sprite as follows:
I have also set my texture as texture-parameter. But my sprite renders ...
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Draw a sphere with a custom material from script
How can I spawn or draw a sphere with a custom material with a script?
So far I've tried using Gizmos.DrawSphere, but I can't find a way to control the material used to draw it.
I would like to draw ...
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Unity run-time creating material has performance impact?
Just found creating a material in a script for the first time would have performance impact.
(Using Unity 5.6.5f)
A very simple script for testing is to create a game object with MeshRenderer in ...
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Unity: How do I only show parts of objects that overlap [2D]
I'm working on a 2D Unity project where the player can only see objects in their field of view. I have successfully created a mesh that overlaps anything that would be in the player's field of view, ...
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Unreal Expose Terrain Layers via a blueprint
I have the below play area and I have 4 terrain materials defined in a material and attached to the terrain.
What I want to achieve is a way to use a blueprint to expose the pathway layer through the ...
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Emissive material from white texture
I have texture with black and white shapes.
I would like that white parts are emissive and black parts are transparent/glass.
How to make such material ?
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Blender to Unreal Material workflow…?
I'm new to game development and the Unreal Engine and I have a general question.
I model my objects in Blender and import them into Unreal Engine. My question is, is it better to create and apply ...
