Object in renderteture has a red tint, or sometimes is completely red.

[gaunt badger]

in the asset browser, they are normal

[turbid lynx]

i wonder if the items are receiving bad light probes / reflection probes

[gaunt badger]

how would i check that?

[turbid lynx]

don'tdestroy the instance when you're done and see if it looks weird

[gaunt badger]

Okay I didn't destroy the instance, and it's still showing up strange

Also when i keep the gameobjects enabled it still sometimes shows up strange

it seems to happen every other time i start the game

so it's like Correct, Incorrect, Correct, Incorrect it's still unpredictable

this is what they look like when correct

[turbid lynx]

oh, I meant to see how the object looks in the scene view

[gaunt badger]

trying to reproduce the issue is difficult

[charred whale]

have you try to make the object material unlit? if its unlit and still tinted red, then its sure there is something wrong in the capturing process

[gaunt badger]

how? i don't see any lighting settings.

[charred whale]

should be here, try changing from standard to unlit

[gaunt badger]

ot sure if it's the right shader or not

[charred whale]

that should do, at least now we know that the problem is not in the rendering to texture part
do you have any lights that only affect UI layer?

[gaunt badger]

Shader.Find("Unlit/Texture")
Also my wholeUI is on the default layer

I'll let you know if the colors break again using that shader and it being on the ui layer

[turbid lynx]

The axes are definitely receiving an unwanted light here

I know that you can tell a camera to render a single scene. Perhaps you can load these items into a scene that contains nothing but a single light?

[gaunt badger]

ok so i haven't seen "Unlit/Texture" get strange colors yet so that's good i think

[turbid lynx]

did you change the item's material, or did you change the material used in the UI?

[gaunt badger]

I only added this, i didn't change the default materials in inspector. (since these are instantiated in code)

        MeshRenderer meshRenderer = instance.GetComponent<MeshRenderer>();
        meshRenderer.materials[0].shader = Shader.Find("Unlit/Texture");
        meshRenderer.materials[1].shader = Shader.Find("Unlit/Texture");```

[turbid lynx]

You probably still want to use a normal lit shader for the item. An unlit shader would neatly avoid this problem, but it'll look..well, unlit!

But if it looks okay, then go with it!

[gaunt badger]

question, how would i load two scenes at the same time?

or can i just add a light to the ui layer?

Yeah I either fixed it or it's still very inconsistent