Unity 3D Question

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• edg3

  2:19pm 23 Sep 2012

  Hi there and welcome,
  
  where in ZA do you live? If it is close enough to me I could get the installer to you on a DVD (otherwise I can just post it).
  
  If you are in JHB I could probably even drop it off tomorrow.
• shelton

  12:34am 24 Sep 2012

  If you in capetown you can come to the meet and there's a dozen guys who can help. I will have it on my flash
• Fengol

  9:35am 13 Jan 2015

  I'm creating a card game prototype and I'm using Quads to show the cards. There can be up to 30 cards visible, each unique. Will I need a material for each card since they all have a different texture?
• Kobusvdwalt9

  9:41am 13 Jan 2015 edited 9:42am 13 Jan 2015

  @Fengol
  You can do various things in that situation :
  1. You could create a script with a public texture variable that you assign the image you want to. Then in the Start function you just set the materials textures to that texture
  

  public Texture2D myTex;
  
  void Start()
  {
    renderer.material.texture = myTex;
  }

  
  
  2. Use sprites
  3. You can dynamically create a new material at runtime for each quad if you so wish.
  
  Personally I would just use unity's new sprite system.
  
  Hope that helped.
• Kobusvdwalt9

  9:44am 13 Jan 2015

  I should maybe also note that there is a sharedMaterial and a material in unity. At runtime if you want to change the actual material for all sprites you should use renderer.sharedMaterial and if you want to change the material the script is attached to you can do renderer.material
• roguecode

  9:57am 13 Jan 2015

  And once you've used renderer.material (as @Kobusvdwalt9 said), you'll notice that the inspector gets a "(instance)" after the shader name, indicating that that is a single instance.
  

  

  

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• vintar

  9:59am 13 Jan 2015

  I think the easiest way (for me anyhow) is kobus's first method if one material and just switch the texture as needed.
• bischonator

  12:54pm 13 Jan 2015 edited 3:23pm 19 Jan 2015

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• Kobusvdwalt9

  1:16pm 13 Jan 2015

  @bischonator I would also do that but we dont know what he is building. Maybe its a card game that requires 3d physics or something.
• AngryMoose

  8:00pm 13 Jan 2015

  @Fengol: There are a few Asset Store Card Game/TCG kits available that might save you a ton of time/money with the building of technology and get you right into making the card game logic. Have you checked any of them out?
  
  https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/18184
  https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/6193
  https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/16967