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Hi,

I know how to create a temp material for a game object, but is it possible to create a new asset within a script?

I want to be able to do this as part of an editor script I'm writing.

Thanks

Steve

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Check out AssetDatabase.CreateAsset - it'll turn an instance of a material into an Asset in the project

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/ScriptReference/AssetDatabase.CreateAsset.html

(Even has a material example for you)

answered Jul 04 '10 at 11:46 AM

Mike 3
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Thanks Mike, ideal. I also modified it slightly to name the material after whatever is currently selected in the Hierarchy: (I put this in a separate answer because it didn't seem possible to format code in a comment)

Jul 04 '10 at 01:02 PM Steve Edwards

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 @MenuItem("GameObject/Create Material")
static function CreateMaterial () {
    // Create a simple material asset
    var material = new Material (Shader.Find("Diffuse"));
     AssetDatabase.CreateAsset(material, "Assets/" + Selection.activeGameObject.name + ".mat");
}

answered Jul 04 '10 at 01:10 PM

Steve Edwards
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I also wanted to then assign the new material to the currently selected object...

Selection.activeGameObject.renderer.sharedMaterials = material;

but get this error: "Cannot convert UnityEngine.Material to (UnityEngine.Material), which is quite funny as errors go.

Jul 04 '10 at 01:16 PM Steve Edwards

(UnityEngine.Material) means it's expecting an array of Materials. If you use sharedMaterial instead of sharedMaterials it should work fine

Jul 04 '10 at 02:21 PM Mike 3

Thanks, that got it.

Jul 04 '10 at 02:45 PM Steve Edwards

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