Cloning a material with deepClone()?

Troubleshooting
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So, when changing the color of the simple cloned material (after collecting its color object), the original material gets it’s color changed too (of course).

I wonder if a new method deepClone() could clone recognized types? like:

@Override
public MatParam deepClone() {
    try {
        MatParam param = (MatParam) super.clone();
        if(param.value instanceof ColorRGBA){ //added code
           param.value = value.clone(); //added code
        } //added code, other types could go here too
        return param;
    } catch (CloneNotSupportedException ex) {
        throw new AssertionError();
    }
}

or that is not as useful as I am thinking? and may cause memory overload issues?
So instead I should just clone and fix the things I want to be unique (like the color)?

Here is also the same context Cloned materials and parameter changes

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Eventually the deepClone() method will use the new Cloner utility which would likely fix this issue. I didn’t convert it in this pass because it seemed unlikely that the current version was causing issues… and I already had to convert a ton of other stuff.

In the mean time, yeah, best just to reset the colors you don’t want shared.

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cool, thx!!!

nice work! found it :slight_smile: