CryENGINE Game Programming with C++, C#, and Lua

Modifying materials at runtime

In this section we're going to modify a material at runtime.

Note

Similar to IStatObj, we can also clone our material to avoid making changes to all of the objects using it currently. To do so, call IMaterialManager::CloneMaterial, which is accessible via gEnv->p3DEngine->GetMaterialManager().

The first thing we need to do is obtain an instance of the material we want to edit. If we have an entity nearby, we can use IEntity::GetMaterial as shown:

IMaterial *pMaterial = pEntity->GetMaterial();

Note

Note that IEntity::GetMaterial returns null if no custom material has been set. If this is the case, you might want to rely on a function such as IStatObj::GetMaterial.

Cloning a material

Note that IMaterial instances can be used ...