Add another way to override materials that isn't based on attributes

[CarsonKompon]

For?

S&Box

What can't you do?

There are a few models on asset party that I have encountered over the years and have wanted to use in certain use cases but have not been able to since the models creators didn't add any attributes. But the creators of every single model every should not HAVE to put attributes on anything, I should be able to go through a list of all materials and override just the one im looking for.

Examples of models that have screen materials that COULD be overwritten given there was a way to achieve this:
https://asset.party/randkassets/r_k_monitor
https://asset.party/trend/arcade1
https://asset.party/facepunch/tv

How would you like it to work?

Ideally there would just be another SetMaterialOverride function on ModelRenderer that looked something like this:

void SetMaterialOverride(Material previousMaterial, Material newMaterial);

or like this:

void SetMaterialOverride(int materialIndex, Material material);

What have you tried?

I looked around ModelDoc to see if there was any way I could override the different materials of an existing model so i could replace the screens with my own screen material containing an attribute but there was no option. Even when setting a Base Model.

Additional context

No response

[Gmod4phun]

Its doable, you can add your own attributes for each material and override it that way. Refer to this #3435

I don't know why garry closed the issue, as I think it would still be very useful to have that exposed nicely in the API somehow, instead of having to do your own implementation.

[CarsonKompon]

Its doable, you can add your own attributes for each material and override it that way. Refer to this #3435

I don't know why garry closed the issue, as I think it would still be very useful to have that exposed nicely in the API somehow, instead of having to do your own implementation.

Appreciate the workaround. I hope he doesn't mark this issue as completed too because this isn't an elegant workaround imo. Simple things like this should be accessible really easily (and as Nebual says in the linked issue it really shouldnt be a challenge to add to the engine)

[MrBrax]

pretty sure before the scene system you could just replace by index?

[garrynewman]

I like the index method better

[Gmod4phun]

Since we now have Camera.RenderTarget, this would be also nice to have. Would be pretty easy to setup RT cameras and monitors.