How do I change materials?

[ImagineAraknala (injection)]

How am I supposed to make this StarterCharacter’s head look neon when the material is neon, but it only shows Plastic?

Some may think this is easier than it looks, but I can’t figure it out…

[CAP7A1N (Cap)]

When you select the part, you should be able to select a material in the properties tab.

Alternatively, you can select the head, and then open the materials drop down and select neon from the top bar.

[ImagineAraknala (injection)]

Alright, though did you read my post fully.

[Hamburger_Hoovy]

Try adding some point light to it, and make the lighting property really bright while the range not much.

[ExcessEnergy]

I believe this is because the head is a SpecialMesh object. Unfortunately, you can not apply the default roblox preset materials to SpecialMesh’s. Only MeshPart’s have this capability.

Heads should support materials

You currently cannot use materials with the Head because it is using the Head SpecialMesh. Developers have to manually create a new head to use materials. Make materials work with the Head SpecialMesh or Replace the Head with a MeshPart with the asset rbxasset://avatar/heads/head.mesh (may break a lot of games and scripts)

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/SpecialMesh
https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/MeshPart

[remfly]

Hi, I have some suggestions…

So, check if this mesh is not united with any other parts, if yes and if you want to keep it like that, first separate it, change the material and then you make it an union.

If that doesn’t fix it, you should also try importing the mesh again. Try doing this and tell me how it goes.

[ImagineAraknala (injection)]

Great proven explanation.

Thanks.