I’m trying to use BP to dynamically change a character’s skeletal mesh, and then depending on some factors, some materials on that new mesh. I can correctly change the skeletal mesh with Set Skeletal Mesh on the character’s Mesh, and if I do only this the mesh is correctly changed with the default m…

I have the same issue, any help?

Do you have ‘Used with Skeletal Mesh’ enabled under the Usage section of the material?

Wow, I don’t think so, thank you for the hint!

Actually, both materials have these flags( My problem is a little bit different because I have a modular body with torso and head, to head attached camera and it rotates with the camera. Somehow it makes problems with material change because with the torso it works fine, need to dig into it deeper.

Old post but here in case anyone else runs into the issue. When you swap skeletal meshes it seems to in some cases use the material slots of the previous mesh. What you need to do is get the Skeletal Mesh Object Reference of the Skeletal Mesh Component. Grab the Materials from the Skeletal Mesh Obj…

I am facing the same issue: I am using Version 4.27.2 I am using a skeletal mesh for the hair and I want to be able to dynamically use different hair colors in the game. I also want to use different hair styles (= different skeletal meshes) eventually, but first things first: I tried to create dyn…

I had a similar issue. Running this code worked for me. Essentially it gets the actual skeletal mesh materials and resets them to themselves before applying new materials to specific slots. [FixMaterialsBeforeChanging]

Interesting. Thanks for that. I will try it out!

This does the trick. Thank you :slight_smile:

Can't correctly change material after changing skeletal mesh

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Alex_iceman (Alex_iceman) July 18, 2023, 12:02pm 10

Also try this variant

[U5.2] BUG: Setting a new skeletal mesh does not update materials