Getting Shader Property After Animation

Writing this here because this gave me and some friends a headache.

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In Unity, animation that change materials do not actually modify the material itself. Instead they animate a MaterialPropertyBlock.

To get the color after animating, you can use the following snippet:

MaterialPropertyBlock properties = new MaterialPropertyBlock();
renderer.GetPropertyBlock(properties);
Vector4 color = properties.GetVector("_Color");
Debug.Log("color: " + color);

You probably want to run this in the late update, since that runs after animations.

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I found the original solution here: https://discussions.unity.com/t/after-animating-a-custom-material-shader-parameter-how-do-i-get-an-accurate-value-from-script/134688