Random Texture for Imported Mesh or Instance?

Questions
1

Hello everyone,

I’ve had no trouble assigning random textures to clones, but I’m having difficulty doing the same for imported meshes. Here are the goals for my project:

Goal 1: Assign random textures from an array to an imported mesh (or to the instances generated from this mesh).

Goal 2: Based on which texture a mesh receives, create a unique result for that mesh. For example:

if texture 1–mesh.position.x += 1;
or…
if texture 2–mesh.rotation.y += 2;

Here’s an example PG I’ve been using to work on these goals:
https://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#L5EB6B

You’ll notice that each the clone parents are assigned 1 of the 3 random textures. The imported mesh (and its instances) receive a random texture also, but it’s the same for all of them.

You’ll also notice my failed attempt at Goal 2 commented out :confused:

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! :smiley: :+1:

2

Hey!

Instances cannot get a different textures (or a different material) than parents

3

Hey @Deltakosh!

I see, that’s helpful to know. Is it also not possible to randomly assign textures to the imported mesh directly (before instances are created)?

4

That should work but in your case you are applying the material on every loop

5

Excellent, I’ll give that a try then. Thanks! :smiley: :+1: