Adding material to gameobject in Unity is making it invisible

Question

I’m making a 2d game and I don’t have any assets yet so I’m just using squares and materials so I can tell things apart. Everything was working out ok until I put a material on the player sprite. I simply made a new material, changed its color, and put it on the square I’m using for the player, and the player just turned invisible. I didn’t change anything with the alpha channel while making the material, and I tried deleting the material and making a new one but nothing worked. I also tried messing with the lighting in my scene, but being fairly new to Unity, I couldn’t figure it out. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks

Edit: I also just reset the material so it should just be a plain white but it still isn’t visible

Hard to tell without seeing the material itself. Any chance it's a single-sided material and just not visible from the direction you're looking in? Does it show up if you look from the other side? — Bart
No, I just put it in 3d mode to test that and I can’t see it from any angle. — Nolan Dailey

Mateus Fernandes Mateus Fernandes · Accepted Answer · 2019-07-30T19:00:55

Give a check in the shader of the material. If you're using sprites, instead of the Standard shader, change it to Default (inside the Sprites tab).

Adding material to gameobject in Unity is making it invisible

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