Instanced mesh material?

[FlinnNew (Flinn)]

How can i have so each one of my instanced mesh have its own material that i can change color on. Currently changeing for one change all of them

[pladux]

I guess that’s not possible because that’s what’s mesh instancing is all about. Afaik they can only differ in transform.

Somewhere I heard about the following analogy. Think about drawing your objects with pen on paper. Every material corresponds to a different colored pen. Drawing objects with the same pen is relatively fast, but always changing the pen between each object takes a huge amount of time.

[Rev0verDrive]

You can’t with ISM’s.

[Everynone]

You can use Per Instance Custom Data.

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 an…

If you feed the vertex interpolator 3 floats, you get a color.

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So, different material for each instance - no. Different colour, oh yeah. You can send more data than just a colour, ofc.