How to set up the material for a single object in ISM

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Just to clarify, these are 3 separate methods.

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Colour does not need to equal a new material. If it’s about changing just the colour, try the Per Instance Custom Data approach - definitely the most fun to learn out of the abovementioned bunch:

Storing Custom Data in Unreal Engine Materials Per-Primitive | Unreal Engine...

In short: imagine you did not need to store colour information in a material, but you could do it in each sphere instance instead. Here’s an example:

How to add a hit count (health points) to individual instances?

The name of the game is Custom Primitive Data (check docs at the bottom). The material for a brick: each instance stores a float which is used to Lerp between 2 colours (to visualise hits remaining) this can (and probably should) get prettified [image] Making a brick wall: create a bunch of instances and store their data in an int | int Map instead of an integer, you could have a struct and hold all kind of data here; perhaps this brick is worth some coins, or explodes when destroyed and …