Change material for sprite in runtime

[d954mas]

Can i change material for sprite in runtime?
I need to change tag for sprite.

[andreas.strangequest]

No, unfortunately not.
What is the user case and we might be able to help you out with alternative solutions?

[d954mas]

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Looks like i have a problem with draw calls [2017-09-26_17-35-43] The problem is my light system. I tint a sprite by light color in shader. sprite.set_constant(url,"light_color",obj.light) As i understand changing uniform in shader break batch. Looks like now i use about 10 light colors. So if i create 10 go with predefined uniform color is this help? As i understand not. Or if i have 10 different materials with different tags(light1,light2 …). Then in render draw light1 then …

[Pkeod]

This was a planned feature wasn’t it? To change materials at runtime?

[Mathias_Westerdahl]

It still is, and we just talked about it during our standup meeting