Unity Material Scripting: Handling Multiple Materials

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When dealing with multiple materials, you should use renderer.materials (plural) instead of renderer.material. Cache the materials array, access by index, modify, then reassign back to the renderer.

See the reference blog below.

Reference:

How to Change Materials via Script