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NGUI 3 Support / Re: Modifying UI2DSprite color at runtime using material shader

« on: August 26, 2014, 09:57:47 AM »

Thank you for the reply ArenMook.

I am looking in the documentation and I cannot find any reference about a member function called onRender. I know there is OnRenderObject, but I don't think it is what you mean since this function sadly does not help the issue.

Is onRender a NGUI callback or a MonoBehavior callback ?

Thanks again.

EDIT: I just saw that this feature was added in the version 3.7.0 version of NGUI. I will update and try it ASAP.

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NGUI 3 Support / Modifying UI2DSprite color at runtime using material shader

« on: August 25, 2014, 05:43:56 PM »

Hi everyone,

I currently have:

• An UI2DSprite.
• A material with a custom shader that I wrote.

As you can guess, my UI2DSprite uses that material.

The shader on the material is simple : given a value, the shader will lerp between the sprite texel color and a color given as an argument. The alpha is not changed.

In my case, for exemple, given a value between 0 and 1, the UI2DSprite's color will vary between the current color (the UI2DSprite's color) and white (1,1,1,1). Meaning that if I give the value 0 to my material, the UI2DSprite will appear normally. If the value is 1, the UI2DSprite will be a bright white silhouette.

If I set the values for each object containing the UI2DSprite with my material before runtime, everything is great !

Here is my problem : I am able to change and set the value given to the shader at runtime but the changes are not applied to the UI2DSprite at runtime. If, using the Unity editor, I change the 2D Sprite of my game object (to another 2D Sprite), then the changes given the shader will apply. Otherwise, I can change the value given to the shader all day long and the UI2DSprite will not change at all.

Is this by design or is there a way around it ? I have tried marking the widget dirty (using "SetDirty()") but it is not geometry related, so no success here.

I am not sure but is the issue discussed here related to my problem ? I tried to apply the solution given in the answer proposed but I realized that UI2DSprite does not have a SpriteRenderer component object to use the function SetPropertyBlock.