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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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 ...
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How to do “realistic” plastic material?
How can i do "realistic" plastic material in Unity 3d , using standard shader or other shader ?
Can you suggest me options ?
Thanks
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Emit particles from only some parts of a mesh
I have a 3D mesh with 3 sub meshes in it, for 3 different materials.
I would like particles to spawn from the mesh, but only from location where one of the material is assigned.
How can I make this ...
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Show Unity Line Renderer as 3d cable or wire
I am dynamically making a line renderer which is pull by the character to show that a character is pulling a wire. The line renderer working fine but unfortunately its display is not according to my ...
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Renderer.material assignment not working [closed]
I have a fairly simple question: I am trying to change an object's material via code with the line
rend.material = NewMat;
where ...
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How to target specific material with Unity VideoPlayer?
I've modeled the following tv-monitor:
This monitor has two materials. The "frame" that makes up the monitor, called MonitorFrameMaterial and the black screen ...
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Create lamp shade material
How would one go about creating a lamp shade material that lets light through from a light inside the object. I have read that turning of shadow casting for that object should work, however I have ...
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How can I properly add material textures to my model?
This is the first time I'm doing game development and I decided to pick Godot engine.
I downloaded some object on the internet for my initiation learning. There are four files:
throp_srub.obj
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How to make a prefab of a blood effect using provided shader/materials in 2D?
I want to create a blood splat effect as shown in this link: https://gfycat.com/CharmingThickFlies
The developer was nice enough to leave the source explain how to apply this. But I cant seem to ...
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How can I make Iridescence material In unity?
One of the characters of the Dota2 that Is called Nyx Assassin has an interesting material effect If you look at the body and feet you can see this effect.It looks like poily/polluted water.I like to ...
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Creating paralax background in Unity3D
I am trying to create some parallax background in Unity in 2D mode by tweaking offset of the background material and using tiling. I used this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGw_UBJQPDY as a ...
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Spine and 2D Unity Weird Light Issue
While using spine in unity 2D with a spot light, the light from the spot light will shine on the character if he's facing right but only when the light is in front (in the Z direction) of the ...
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How to stop and start sprite sheet flipbook materials in a widget blueprint?
I have a flipbook material I created from a sprite sheet to add some fireworks to a game I'm working on. I have the material set up and it is showing the animation of the firework like it should. ...
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Is multiple material on same mesh cause low perf?
I'm making something like "Low poly" style game. For that, I'm using multiple materials for each mesh without uv mapping and texturing.
Luckily, only weapon does this, others not. Also it's first ...
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Can't change materials of model from FBX
I was used 5.x before, and that version when I loaded FBX, Unity generated each material automatically, so I can change them like assigning textures or change shader.
And now I switched to 2017.3, ...
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Game objects all blue underneath
I have an empty scene with a single object in it, a cube.
The cube renders initially as pink, when it has no material attached.
When I attach a material though. Any material. Odd things happen.
I ...
