Changing color but kinda advanced

[esr_esr]

Hi all ,
The objects in the example scene are using one pixel map texture which is 512x512 px divided into 4 pequal parts.

What I’m trying to do is , i would like to change entities colors.For example changing one entity color to yellow.Simple isnt it:)?

So in order to achive this , my first guess is changing uvs of meshInstance accoording to textures pixels.But I dont find a proper solution.

Note: I dont want to change materials offset and tiling because it produces different materials.I want want material for batching actually.

Note2:In Blender , i can do this with uv unwrapping.

Scene : https://playcanvas.com/editor/scene/1315038

Suggestions appreciated.Thanks

[mvaligursky]

@esr_esr

So in order to achive this , my first guess is changing uvs of meshInstance accoording to textures pixels.But I dont find a proper solution.

This sounds like a good option to me. Create 4 meshes with different UV coordinates, and those will batch together fine.

[yaustar]

@esr_esr

Note: I dont want to change materials offset and tiling because it produces different materials.I want want material for batching actually.

There are some private material parameters that can be used (and maybe subject to change in the future) to change the offset and tiling on per meshinstance basis.

[SOLVED] GIF Motion Texture Support?

That might be better as a video texture TBH. Here’s the tutorial for changing UVs on a material. https://playcanvas.com/project/405882/overview/tutorial-scrolling-textures In your case, rather than scroll, you would want to set the UVs on the material to be at each frame. Here’s an unofficial project to do ‘sprites’ with textures that uses private API: https://playcanvas.com/editor/scene/1305675

The second link in that post could a be a possibility here.

[esr_esr]

Thank you Yaustar i’ll look at these

[mvaligursky]

@yaustar

There are some private material parameters that can be used

but those stop meshes from batching, same as different materials

[esr_esr]

So it’s not actually different thing than creating different mats ok got it

[yaustar]

@mvaligursky

but those stop meshes from batching, same as different materials

Oh do they? I didn’t realise that