Setting material on render component

[LeXXik]

When material is set on a render component of type asset, its is being ignored by mesh instances. What is the reason for this?

[mvaligursky]

This is the way it was done on the model component a long time ago, and render component uses it the same way.

This is only used for built-in shapes, I assume to simplify access to meshInstances[0].material. Asset can have multiple mesh instances, so a single material does not make sense. Especially a getter would not work in that case.

I agree it's not a great API, and one day we should probably just remove it / replace by setMaterial(index, material) and getMaterial(index)