Description
Bevy version
0.16.1
What you did
I migrated my game from 0.14 to 0.16, and in this process noticed some materials were no longer rendering.
Previously I spawned entities with at minimum a cell shaded material and a material to add an outline (using vertex extrusion)
What went wrong
Entities with multiple materials only render one of these materials. The material selected appears to always be the same, but this might be affected by system ordering. No warning is given when this happens.
Additional information
There are alternative solutions, which could be used as a permanent workaround too, but the usability of these would be worse.
Creating a render pipeline for extra materials
Users could create a render pipeline for materials they want to apply in addition to other materials. However, creating pipelines is a lot more involved than adding an extra MeshMaterial3d.
Spawning child entities with different materials
For the most part this works fine, but is a fair bit clunkier, for example it makes adding and removing the materials much more involved. Additionally this adds extra culling and transform propagation work. This approach also becomes significantly less practical when animated meshes are involved, as simply copying the mesh with another material does not create a usable outcome.
This is the workaround I took for now, besides the performance and skinned mesh concerns it's mostly usable:
commands.entity(entity).insert((
HasModel,
children![
(
- Mesh3d(meshes.add(Capsule3d::new(0.25, 1.1))),
+ Mesh3d(capsule.clone()),
MeshMaterial3d(materials.add(CellShadedMaterial::new(
&mut images,
get_team_color(team.copied().unwrap_or_default()),
(0.15, 0.5, 0.1),
))),
- MeshMaterial3d(outline.clone()),
+ ),
+ (Mesh3d(capsule.clone()), MeshMaterial3d(outline.clone()),),
+ (
+ Mesh3d(capsule.clone()),
MeshMaterial3d(charge_mats.add(ManaChargeMaterial::new(&loader, 0.))),
),
....
)