Spatial Material make unique not working

AgeOfAsparagus

I have a simple SpatialMaterial with the albedo set to change the color of a MeshInstance cube. If I duplicate the MeshInstance, then choose "make unique" on the duplicate's material, it still changes the color of the original cube. What am I doing wrong here?

Here's a video showing:

TwistedTwigleg

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Bean_B_Beanie

I copied what you had done, and found something strange:

When I right-clicked on the SpatialMaterial inside the Mesh then selected "Make unique", the panel flashed and looked like it worked, but it did the same thing that happened to you. However, if I selected the mesh and said "Make unique", then did the same thing for the spatial material inside the Mesh, it allowed me to change the albedo of the second cube.

I believe this happens because when you duplicated the MeshInstance, it made a shallow copy, reusing the mesh from the first. By making the mesh unique, then its SpatialMaterial, it worked.