How to change skin color via script, without using the parts?

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#1

I want to be able to change the color of a character’s skin without just using a loop on all the MeshParts under the character (this is because it messes with the tool they may be holding).

I am looking into using HumanoidDescription but I am not sure whether this is universally supports the same code for both R15 and R6 (like .LeftLegColor = blah blah works for both).

If anyone could help it’d be great!

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#2

What do you mean it messes with the tool? If you use GetChildren, you should only get the children of the character, not its descendants, meaning the parts within a tool should not be affected.

#3

Have you tried doing something like this ?

game:GetService('Players').LocalPlayer.Character['Body Colors'].HeadColor = BrickColor.new('Really red')

This would obviously only change it for the head , but obviously you can change different body colors accordingly

#4

That’s not a good idea at all since LocalPlayer can be only called from the Local Script, meaning that code works but only player itselfs can see the skin change, not the others.

#5

If the person who posted this intends it to be a server script , it would only take a bit of rewriting to do so . I do not understand what you are trying to tell me

#6

I’m just fixing your post so perhaps not all people know how to code and fix this “small issues”, so they know the difference between local script and the server script.

#7

Use ApplyDescriptionReset, it works great for both R6 and R15. Some example code is:

local hum = Instance.new('Humanoid') -- Example Humanoid (Replace with the humanoid of the character)

local description = Instance.new('HumanoidDescription')
description.HeadColor = Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255) -- Example color

hum:ApplyDescriptionReset(description)

I would recommend having a HumanoidDescription Instance in ReplicatedStorage.

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#8

I ended up just caching their description before their body color changed (like, on CharacterAdded), and then grabbing it from a table in the script. Then using ApplyDescriptionReset, essentially what you’ve done here.

#9

Great! Glad I could help.

Need more characters

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