If you're encountering pink materials while working in Unity, it's almost certainly due to the material trying to use a shader system that isn't available. Below, you'll find a couple of solutions to tackle this common issue.
Solution 1: Changing the Shader to Standard
Solution 2: Downloading and Installing the Missing Shader
- Step 1: Identify the shader being used. You can do this on the upload page where the shader details are typically specified.
- Step 2: Once you've found the shader, download it. These files are usually available for download online.
- Step 3: Open and install/load it into your project, Unity shaders typically comes as a unitypackage file.
Step 4: Follow the steps in Solution 1, but instead of selecting "Standard", choose the name of your newly downloaded and installed shader.
- Final notes: If you are using a custom shader and your model is not visible, that is a whole other rabbit hole, we recommend sticking to well know shader packs like: https://github.com/cubedparadox/Cubeds-Unity-Shaders
Results!
With this, you've changed the shader to the standard option, which should resolve the pink material issue.
Before: https://cdn.vrcmods.com/uploads/user/1/custom_imgs/c8ade936839848b0b00ba8acd7bd9799.png After (solution 1, standard shader): https://cdn.vrcmods.com/uploads/user/1/custom_imgs/d575da7069e04962a1c8759eff27b399.png
