material changing mystery

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Let's take a senario of a mesh-instance with a material set with: mesh_instance.set_surface_material(0, m)

where m is a transparent (transparency flag set and albedo color with alpha < 255) then it is changed to another material with the transparency flag off and alpha = 255

the mesh color changes but is still transparent as if the transparency flag/alpha carry over from the first material. more over when i change the resource file name for the 2nd material the color remains the same, as if i did not change the filename.

this feels like a project update issue somehow

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OK, so the debugger is showing that the game engine is trying to load a file, whose name I am not referring to. It's like the editor is loading a stale version of the file. I use 'grep' to check which file names are being loaded and it is not the same as the on in the script itself.

I have modified the source file a dozen times, yet the game somehow keeps loading a stale version of the file. This is exceedingly frustrating. Restarting the editor does not effect this.

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OK I figured out why. Exported field is overriding script