How do I duplicate a material?

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Hello,

What I need to do is take the material of an object, and duplicate the material. How would this be done? Thank you!

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Answer by Bunny83 · Jan 21, 2012 at 06:16 PM

I you take a look into the documentation you will see there are 3 different constructors for Material. One takes a string which should hole the shaders source code, one takes a compiled shader object and one that takes an existing Material as parameter (this is the copy constructor).

However in Unity you can clone every object that is derived from UnityEngine.Object with Instantiate. Keep in mind that you can only use the one-parameter-version of Instantiate with objects that doesn't belong to a GameObject.

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tatelax · Jan 21, 2012 at 09:57 PM 0

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I will take a look at Instantiate. Thanks.

tatelax · Jan 21, 2012 at 11:48 PM 0

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How would I use Instantiate on a Texture2D?

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Answer by Kryptos · Jan 21, 2012 at 07:27 PM

@Bunny83 gave you the code solution. If you want to duplicate the asset in the project view, select it and hit CTRL+D (on Windows) to duplicate it, or right-click 'Duplicate'.

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Bunny83 · Jan 21, 2012 at 08:22 PM 1

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Right ;) As a programmer i always think about code in the first place. However, the question sounds more like the OP was after a scripting solution, maybe i'm wrong.

Anyway, +1

tatelax · Jan 21, 2012 at 09:57 PM 0

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Yes I was looking for a program$$anonymous$$g solution.

Frenchie92 · Jul 04, 2013 at 12:29 AM 3

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I was looking for the asset solution. Thanks!

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