How to change material of an object by pressing a button?

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#2 SetSkinName....try that, but your shape[dts] must be exported with textures following the code's naming conventions...base.texture.ext. As far as I know, only works with dts shapes, and not all classes either....

#3 Barserk i tried with SetMaterialMapping. the console gives a warning "cannot find function SetMaterialMapping" . i am trying to change shader on an object. the object is a simple sphere exported from 3dsmax in dts format. the sphere is also an item object in Torque. i cannot understand why addMaterialMapping doesn't work in real time . i just use this code on the button function :addMaterialMapping("Sphere", "material: DynCubeSphere2");
and after pressing the button the console gives a warniong "Warning , overwriting material properties for : Sphere" but in fact my object doesn't change its material.

#4 In stock TGE-A (which it sounds like you are using since you are talking about shaders), materials are compiled just after startup and can't be changed in real time.

There is a patch/resource to activate dynamic material swapping, but you need a source code license to do that.

#5 AddMaterialMapping is for adding dust color and sound when a player walks over a terrain texture...WAY off :-)

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#7 I see, thank you all for the replies. I intend to buy the license soon , Torque is really powerful. I was just exploring the engine capabilities and didn't know if material swapping is possible in real time.