Reworked entity renderer assignment: both MeshRenderer and SkinnedMeshRenderer are created at the same time on init, and are enabled/disabled on demand.

Also: destroy overridden textures, and disable lerping on alias model animator by default.

Assets/Scripts/Game/Entity.cs

@@ -24,6 +24,21 @@ public class Entity
     private void CreateGameObject()
     {
         gameObject = new GameObject($"Entity_{entityNum}");
+        
+        skinnedMeshRenderer = gameObject.AddComponent<SkinnedMeshRenderer>();
+        skinnedMeshRenderer.shadowCastingMode = ShadowCastingMode.Off;
+        skinnedMeshRenderer.receiveShadows = false;
+        skinnedMeshRenderer.lightProbeUsage = LightProbeUsage.Off;
+        skinnedMeshRenderer.reflectionProbeUsage = ReflectionProbeUsage.Off;
+        skinnedMeshRenderer.enabled = false;
+
+        meshFilter = gameObject.AddComponent<MeshFilter>();
+        meshRenderer = gameObject.AddComponent<MeshRenderer>();
+        meshRenderer.shadowCastingMode = ShadowCastingMode.Off;
+        meshRenderer.receiveShadows = false;
+        meshRenderer.lightProbeUsage = LightProbeUsage.Off;
+        meshRenderer.reflectionProbeUsage = ReflectionProbeUsage.Off;
+        meshRenderer.enabled = false;
     }
 
     public void Destroy()
@@ -37,9 +52,21 @@ public class Entity
         brushModel = null;
         worldModel = null;
 
-        Object.Destroy(meshFilter);
-        Object.Destroy(meshRenderer);
-        Object.Destroy(skinnedMeshRenderer);
+        skinnedMeshRenderer.sharedMesh = null;
+        if (skinnedMeshRenderer.material != null)
+        {
+            Object.Destroy(skinnedMeshRenderer.material);
+            skinnedMeshRenderer.material = null;
+        }
+        skinnedMeshRenderer.enabled = false;
+        
+        meshFilter.sharedMesh = null;
+        if (meshRenderer.material != null)
+        {
+            Object.Destroy(meshRenderer.material);
+            meshRenderer.material = null;
+        }
+        meshRenderer.enabled = false;
         
         // TODO: not sure if this is the right way to unlink world sub-models
         gameObject.transform.DetachChildren();
@@ -82,13 +109,13 @@ public class Entity
         {
             aliasModel.Animate(frameNum, out Mesh mesh, out float blendWeight);
 
-            if (skinnedMeshRenderer != null)
+            if (skinnedMeshRenderer.enabled)
             {
                 skinnedMeshRenderer.sharedMesh = mesh;
                 if (mesh != null && mesh.blendShapeCount > 0)
                     skinnedMeshRenderer.SetBlendShapeWeight(0, blendWeight);
             }
-            else if (meshFilter != null)
+            else if (meshRenderer.enabled)
             {
                 meshFilter.sharedMesh = mesh;
             }
@@ -112,23 +139,13 @@ public class Entity
         var material = new Material(Shader.Find("Universal Render Pipeline/Simple Lit"));
         if (aliasModel.IsAnimated)
         {
-            skinnedMeshRenderer = gameObject.AddComponent<SkinnedMeshRenderer>();
             skinnedMeshRenderer.material = material;
-            skinnedMeshRenderer.shadowCastingMode = ShadowCastingMode.Off;
-            skinnedMeshRenderer.receiveShadows = false;
-            skinnedMeshRenderer.lightProbeUsage = LightProbeUsage.Off;
-            skinnedMeshRenderer.reflectionProbeUsage = ReflectionProbeUsage.Off;
+            skinnedMeshRenderer.enabled = true;
         }
         else
         {
-            meshFilter = gameObject.AddComponent<MeshFilter>();
-            meshRenderer = gameObject.AddComponent<MeshRenderer>();
             meshRenderer.material = material;
-            
-            meshRenderer.shadowCastingMode = ShadowCastingMode.Off;
-            meshRenderer.receiveShadows = false;
-            meshRenderer.lightProbeUsage = LightProbeUsage.Off;
-            meshRenderer.reflectionProbeUsage = ReflectionProbeUsage.Off;
+            meshRenderer.enabled = true;
         }
     }
 }

Assets/Scripts/Game/GameAssets.cs

@@ -30,7 +30,13 @@ public class GameAssets
             texNum = nextTexNum++;
         }
 
-        textures[texNum] = texture;
+        if (textures.ContainsKey(texNum))
+        {
+            Object.Destroy(textures[texNum]);
+            textures.Remove(texNum);
+        }
+        
+        textures.Add(texNum, texture);
         return texNum;
     }
 

Assets/Scripts/Support/AliasModelAnimator.cs

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ public class AliasModelAnimator : MonoBehaviour
     public AliasModel aliasModel;
 
     [SerializeField]
-    private bool lerpMove = true;
+    private bool lerpMove = false;
 
     [SerializeField]
     [Range(1, 20)]