Change shader's default texture to "black"

[Asse]

Hey Aren,

could you change the default texture of your shader's to "black"? When I load my shop UI I have a lot of UITexture widgets representing thumbnails. I assign the corresponding textures dynamically at runtime and because I don't want the user have to wait until every thumbnail is loaded, I display the widgets immediately. Now because the default shader texture is "white" you can see a white square that later changes to the correct texture.

With the default texture is "black" this won't happen.

1. _MainTex ("Base (RGB), Alpha (A)", 2D) = "black" {}

PS: I could disable/enable the widgets when loaded but hey, why the hazzle when it could be that easy

[ArenMook]

Hmm... good point. I wonder if someone will complain if I do that though...

[Nicki]

How does that solve the problem? Won't it just be a black square that changes to the right texture?

You should have a placeholder texture that you use until the right one is downloaded, then there's not problem and you have complete control.

[Asse]

Nope, black is rendered totally transparent.

[ArenMook]

"black" seems to imply (0, 0, 0, 0).

[Nicki]

Dammit, Color-class, alpha 0 is not black!

[Asse]

They may have named it transparent but I tried - that didn't work