How to set a part to air?

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#1

How do i set a material to air? When i type “(my part).material = Enum.material.air” and close out of the script, in the material section of the part it still says (my previous material)

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#2

Enum.Material.Air is a terrain material (Air is basically invisible) it is not a part material.

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#3

“Air” is not a Material, even you use that script “(my part).Material = Enum.Material.Air”.

You can use:

local Part = script.Parent[“PartName”]
Part.Transparency = 0

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#4

Like the others said, air isn’t a material. If you want air, you can just make a part transparent by setting the transparency to 1. There is a ForceField material that is kinda like air though.

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#5

The only instance where air is a material is the Humanoid.FloorMaterial and even returning it from the Humanoid.FloorMaterial wont work, you cannot get Air as a material from anything else

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#6

You could just delete the part or you could set the transparency to 1 and disable collisions.

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#7

Why do you want to set a Part’s Material to air? What purpose does it serve?

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#8

from what I heard, setting the material to air gets rid of all possible reflections when you put a decal or texture over the part.

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#9 
local part = script.Parent --change this to where your part is located

part.Transparency = 0
part.CanCollide = false
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#10

“From what I heard”… Where did you hear this information?

If you look here you’ll find that when you are concerned about Lighting affecting a decal you should use a SurfaceGui

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#11

I heard it from here: How to make a normal map effect also, thanks for the info about decals.

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