How to make a dictionary of the color of the body parts of a player?

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So here’s some code I have

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)

	wait(5)

	local char = plr.Character

	for i,Child in pairs (char:GetChildren()) do
		if Child:IsA("MeshPart") then

			Child.Color = Color3.fromRGB(112, 69, 255)

			Child.Material = 'ForceField'

		end
	end


	for i,Child in pairs (char:GetChildren()) do
		if Child:IsA("Accessory") then

			local ChildA = Child:FindFirstChildWhichIsA('MeshPart')

			ChildA.Color = Color3.fromRGB(112, 69, 255)

			ChildA.Material = 'ForceField'

			--	char.Head.face.Transparency = 1

		end
	end

	wait(5)
	
	-- do thing
	
end)

after the wait(5) I want to give the player their colors back and also their proper material, my problem is how to grab the color values that they had before they were changed?

2

Hello,

You could create a variable before they are changed on line 6, which would store the color value before it is changed.

You could then retrieve this after the wit on line 34.

I hope this helped!

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this does explain it better, but my problem is how to do the whole “store the color” code part :I?, doesnt need to be the whole code done, I just want some hints or whatever to at least start somewhere

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Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)

	wait(5)

	local char = plr.Character
	
	local SavedColorTable = {}

	for i,Child in pairs (char:GetChildren()) do
		if Child:IsA("MeshPart") then
			
			SavedColorTable[Child.Name] = Child.Color
			
			Child.Color = Color3.fromRGB(112, 69, 255)

			Child.Material = 'ForceField'

		end
	end


	for i,Child in pairs (char:GetChildren()) do
		if Child:IsA("Accessory") then

			local ChildA = Child:FindFirstChildWhichIsA('MeshPart')

			ChildA.Color = Color3.fromRGB(112, 69, 255)

			ChildA.Material = 'ForceField'

			--	char.Head.face.Transparency = 1

		end
	end

	wait(5)

	-- do thing

end)

Printing SavedColorTable will return a table of the limb’s colors.

5

huh strange, I didnt get anything …?

6

Print it from inside of the function.

7

ah yes, it printed with the values!, how can I now grab those values and use one by one ?

8

SavedColorTable[“InsertBodyPartHere”] would give you the color of that body part.

9

you could probably do something along the lines of:

for bodypart, color in pairs (SavedColorTable) do
    player.Character[bodypart].Color = color
end
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this helped a lot thank you!, going to post the finished script now!

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11

thanks everybody who replied, the script is finally done! and pretty easy to mess around with too!

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local function onCharacterAdded(character)

	local SavedColorTable = {}

	for i,Child in pairs (character:GetChildren()) do
		if Child:IsA("BasePart") then

			SavedColorTable[Child.Name] = Child.Color
			print(SavedColorTable)
			
		end
	end
	
	wait(0.01)
	
	for i,Child in pairs (character:GetChildren()) do
		if Child:IsA("BasePart") then
			
			Child.Color = Color3.fromRGB(112, 69, 255)
			

			Child.Material = 'ForceField'

		end
	end
	


	for i,Child in pairs (character:GetChildren()) do
		if Child:IsA("Accessory") then

			local ChildA = Child:FindFirstChildWhichIsA('MeshPart')
			

			ChildA.Color = Color3.fromRGB(112, 69, 255)
			

			ChildA.Material = 'ForceField'

		end
	end

	wait(3) -- time until it returns to normal

	for bodypart, color in pairs (SavedColorTable) do
		character[bodypart].Color = color
	end

	for i,Child in pairs (character:GetChildren()) do
		if Child:IsA("BasePart") then

			Child.Material = 'Plastic'

		end
	end
	
	
	
	for i,Child in pairs (character:GetChildren()) do
		if Child:IsA("Accessory") then

			local ChildA = Child:FindFirstChildWhichIsA('MeshPart')

			ChildA.Color = Color3.fromRGB(255, 255, 255)

			ChildA.Material = 'Plastic'

		end
	end
end

local function onPlayerAdded(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(onCharacterAdded)
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded)

have fun with it!
example of it in action:

https://gyazo.com/6315ec4ec975e2a7f52a84b3936d70d2

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