Adding a UV-map material in Unity 5 not working

Question

I am currently using Unity 5 to setup a small game so that I can see the assets I recently made in blender in action.

I have created a uv-map in blender and added the necessary colour (it works and displays nicely and blender) but it doesn't seem to work in Unity. What I've done is created a material, chosen the uv (under the albedo option) and then applied it in the skinned-mesh renderer of the object but it colours the entire object only one of the colours included or it just doesn't colour at all. I tried messing with the import options (swapping the UV's) but it doesn't seem to work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Is there a chance you've been tricked by the annoying new button in Unity's "new" shader,

To change the :actual texture", it's called Albedo which is annoying.

You must click precisely the little "dot" shown below!

The "little dot" is between the small square, and the word "Albedo".

Then, a selector panel appears. HOWEVER there is a soft bug: When the selector panel appears it immediately goes to the back of all windows.

Many people, certainly myself, get fooled by this. It's quite annoying.

So, hopefully the problem is just that you have not yet selected the texture to display, considering the "tricky button issue" on Unity's "new" universal shader.