How to locally turn on and off textures?

[RCW3993 (rcw)]

I have a settings menu in my game that has different settings for the player to turn on and off to their preferences.

I want to have a setting that allows you to turn on and off materials/textures (or just set all of them to plastic). How could I got about doing this from a local script? if anyone can help I would appreciate it!

[Sub2_AlteredMindYT (AlteredMind)]

you could run a for loop for every single part / texture in the workspace.

Example:

for i,v in game.workspace:getdescendants() do
if v:IsA(“BasePart”) then v.Material = enum.Material.Plastic end end
end

You can make the for loop check for the texture instances and surface appearances to remove / disable them

[RCW3993 (rcw)]

Do you know how I could set them back to the material they were before? when the button is pressed back

[SPR1NG3R]

You could do something where the server sends the textures to the client so the client can replicate it. Or you could find a way to save the textures of every part in the background like in a script or via attributes. But I think the first option is probably the easiest

[CloutBl0x (cloutblox)]

This should work:

local button = script.Parent
local materialsVisible = true

function hideMaterials(gameParts)
	local oldMaterial = Instance.new("StringValue")
	oldMaterial.Value = gameParts.Material.Name
	oldMaterial.Name = "OldMaterial"
	oldMaterial.Parent = gameParts

	gameParts.Material = Enum.Material.SmoothPlastic
end

function showMaterials(gameParts)
	local oldMaterial = gameParts:FindFirstChild("OldMaterial")
	gameParts.Material = Enum.Material[oldMaterial.Value]
	oldMaterial:Destroy()
end

button.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	if materialsVisible == true then
		materialsVisible = false

		for i, gameParts in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
			if gameParts:IsA("BasePart") then
				hideMaterials(gameParts)
			end
		end
	else
		materialsVisible = true

		for i, gameParts in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
			if gameParts:IsA("BasePart") then
				showMaterials(gameParts)
			end
		end
	end
end)

[Sub2_AlteredMindYT (AlteredMind)]

Make a table to store all the previous materials, or set an attribute to save the material, then it can be restored.