Load Material via Editor

[Alexander M]

Hi!
Is it possible to assign Material (Shader etc) type variable in the ScriptInstance (AngelScript API) through the Editor?
Thanks.

[Chris Friesen]

Yup.

class AddMat : ScriptObject

{

    void Start()

    {

        StaticModel@ model = node.GetComponent("StaticModel");

        Material@ mat = cache.GetResource("Material", "Materials/CloudPlane.xml");

        model.material = mat;

    }

}

Is that what you are trying to do?

[Chris Friesen]

node is a reference to the current node

all variables in the class that are not prefixed with an _ are available in the editor.

class AddMat : ScriptObject

{

    string materialName;

    void Start()

    {

        StaticModel@ model = node.GetComponent("StaticModel");

        Material@ mat = cache.GetResource("Material", materialName);

        model.material = mat;

    }

}

[Alexander M]

Thanks for the replies!

Sorry, I'm not exactly described the problem. Is there any possibility to call Resource Picker for Material like in the BillboardSet component?

[Lasse Öörni]

Right now handles to Resource objects are not supported by ScriptInstance variable introspection, only Node & Component subclasses.

I believe it is doable, but requires expansion of the information stored for registered object classes. Basically, need a way to determine at runtime (preferably without hardcoding) when a class name is a Resource subclass.

[Lasse Öörni]

There's now support for assigning script object's resource handle variables from the editor. Here's a (stupid) example script which would set a different material out of two for a StaticModel each frame:

class MaterialChanger : ScriptObject
{
    Material@ mat1;
    Material@ mat2;
    uint index = 0;

    void Update(float timeStep)

    {
        StaticModel@ model = node.GetComponent("StaticModel");

        if (model is null)
            return;

        index++;
        if (index & 1 != 0)
            model.material = mat1;
        else
            model.material = mat2;
    }
}