How to change material color of an Object

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Guys, how may i change the tint color of a material in a existent GameObject in JavaScript?

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Answer by Tasarran · Jan 24, 2012 at 09:54 PM

gameObject.renderer.material.color = Color.white;

You have to either define a color, or you can use Color.white ('white' can be any of a number of colors, including white, red, yellow, black, gray, blue, cyan, green, etc.)

Or build your own Color using Color(R, G, B). R, G, & B in this function are floats from 0.0 to 1.0.

This works best if the base color of the material is 50% gray, that way you have room to move away from that color in any direction.

The actual effect of this is that you are adjusting the 'Main Color' of the material that is exposed in the Inspector at the top of the material.

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Marsallima · Jan 24, 2012 at 10:46 PM 0

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Thanks :D

Dumblegore · Jul 01, 2016 at 08:59 PM 3

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seems this is deprecated you can update this to:

 gameObject.GetComponent<Renderer> ().material.color = Color.green;

ajayajayaj · Oct 15, 2016 at 06:31 PM 0

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$$anonymous$$A$$anonymous$$E SURE NOT TO USE 0 TO 255! That's what I did.

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Answer by Azbo · Nov 02, 2015 at 01:56 PM

You do not have to do it with code if you want to make it a bit easier. Just left click in your preferred folder in this case Assets and then create-->Material. From there you can change in to a sprite if you want a solid color and you can experiment with them. Once you have the proper color just drag that material into the object.

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Answer by ruileitao · Sep 23, 2013 at 10:02 PM

allo!

When i use

gameObject.renderer.material.color = Color(0.777, 08, 0.604);

the color is not the same as when I use this color in the object.

if anyone knows why, thank you

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UnChicoMalo · May 02, 2017 at 06:31 PM -1

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Hi! I know this is an old answer but...:

for some reason in code the RGB's 255 = 1, so if you wanted something white (and doing it with the RGB) it'd be:

 gameObject.renderer.material.color = new Color(1,1,1);

So, you can do a simple conversion function:

 private float coloNumberConversion(float num) {
         return (num / 255.0f);
     }

Now you can put the actual RGB you see in the inspector: for example, for a darkish brown

 Color color = Color.black;
 color.r = coloNumberConversion(94);
 color.g = coloNumberConversion(69);
 color.b = coloNumberConversion(31);

Eno-Khaon UnChicoMalo · May 02, 2017 at 06:47 PM 0

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To note, the multiplication in your conversion is redundant. You'll see identical results by using:

 return num / 255.0f;

UnChicoMalo Eno-Khaon · May 02, 2017 at 08:59 PM 0

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Whoops. Corrected, thanks.

MFaik · Mar 23, 2020 at 01:08 PM 0

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I know I am 8 years late but you can use Color32 you give it r g b a from 0 to 255 for example: new Color32(255,0,0,255) is red

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Answer by sixscorpions · Oct 29, 2013 at 06:01 AM

http://solution2tech.blogspot.in/2013/10/change-material-color-in-unity-3d.html

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Answer by CatsPawGames · Sep 15, 2014 at 09:08 PM

If you need more complex recoloring (keeping some colors intact while changing other etc.), you can check Colorify on asset store

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ruileitao · May 03, 2017 at 01:33 PM 0

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Hi guys!

Thank you very much for the support! I have already resolved this issue.

Once again thank you very much!

All the best!

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