lukakldiashvili / unified-renderer-unity

Set material properties right from component for Unity.

Stop creating new materials just to change color of the objects, modify them right from the component!

Unified Renderer

Unified Renderer is simple plugin for Unity, that allows to assign material properties right from object (instead of material).

Unified Renderer is based on Unity's 'MaterialPropertyBlock' class, that allows to pass different data to each Renderer/object.

How to install

Simply add the following git url in package manager (please read further notes):
https://github.com/lukakldiashvili/Unified-Renderer-Unity.git

For production, please find specific version in releases tab, and install latest package with url from there.

Features

• SRP independent, works with all render pipelines.
• Set/Get property values per renderer
• Per-material or per-renderer (global for renderer) properties

Examples

Note: each ball has the same default material assigned. this demo is included in the project.

Installation and Usage

• Install Unified Renderer as upm package (how to: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/upm-git.html)
  or install manually by putting repository into the project
• You can find settings inside project settings, under 'Unified Renderer' tab
• Add Unified Renderer component to object with supported renderer attached
• Add property you want to modify from the component
• Edit/View values from the inspector of from the scripts

unified-renderer-unity's Issues

Not optimized for SRP compatibility

As it is right now, the UnifiedRenderer component forces a dedicated drawcall for each Renderer it's attached to.

Proposal: in order to make the UnifiedRenderer compatible with the SRP batcher, the code should modify the sharedMaterials directly, without using MaterialPropertyBlocks.

More info in the official doc for the SRP batcher.