How would I change skin color?

Earthraphobic2 · September 26, 2023, 10:56pm

Hello! I’m making a mechanic where you are trapped in a freezer, and slowly your skin becomes more and more blue. However, I have no idea on how to do this and no idea where to even start!

Can someone help point me in the right direction? Thanks.

azqjanna · September 26, 2023, 11:13pm

Color3 values have a :Lerp() function that lets you gradually change between two colors. So you can lerp between the players original color and blue.

Earthraphobic2 · September 26, 2023, 11:17pm

How would I get their body colors?

azqjanna · September 26, 2023, 11:19pm

I think you can just use the color of the actual parts, so like the character’s Head.Color

Earthraphobic2 · September 26, 2023, 11:22pm

would i just do it like this?

script.Parent.Door.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function(plr)
	plr.Character:FindFirstChild('Head').Color:Lerp(Color3.new(0.0313725, 0.662745, 1))
	plr.Character:FindFirstChild('Torso').Color:Lerp(Color3.new(0.0313725, 0.662745, 1))
	plr.Character:FindFirstChild('RightLeg').Color:Lerp(Color3.new(0.0313725, 0.662745, 1))
	plr.Character:FindFirstChild('LeftLeg').Color:Lerp(Color3.new(0.0313725, 0.662745, 1))
	plr.Character:FindFirstChild('LeftArm').Color:Lerp(Color3.new(0.0313725, 0.662745, 1))
	plr.Character:FindFirstChild('RightArm').Color:Lerp(Color3.new(0.0313725, 0.662745, 1))
end)

Miserable_Haven · September 27, 2023, 12:31am

You could also tween it.

I am not sure if Lerp or Tweening is more efficient, but I only understand Tweening.

7z99 · September 27, 2023, 12:49am

You are missing an alpha and aren’t assigning the colour to anything. Alpha is the percentage between colour 1 and colour 2.

So for example,

local TIME_TO_FREEZE = 120 -- say it takes 120 seconds for them to fully freeze
local FROZEN_COLOUR = Color3.new(0.0313725, 0.662745, 1) -- the colour the player will be when they are fully frozen

-- now to get the colour for each body part:
local head = character:FindFirstChild('Head')
local bodyColour = head.Color

-- timeElapsed on the following line would be the duration for which they were in the freezer or began freezing
-- we clamp the alpha between 0 and 1 since we wouldn't want to extrapolate if timeElapsed > TIME_TO_FREEZE, or if timeElapsed < 0
local colourInterpolated = bodyColour:Lerp(FROZEN_COLOUR, math.clamp(timeElapsed / TIME_TO_FREEZE, 0, 1))
head.Color = colourInterpolated
-- assign colourInterpolated to the rest of the body parts

Earthraphobic2 · October 1, 2023, 2:18am

Where is TimeElapsed variable?

7z99 · October 1, 2023, 4:47am

timeElapsed would be the time that they’ve been in the freezer or started freezing (so just increment it every frame or so)

BriefYayyayyay · October 1, 2023, 4:57am

I would recommend iterating over the values with code similar to this:

for _, i in plr.Character:GetChildren() do
	if i:IsA("Part") then
		-- Change colour of `i`
	end
end

Earthraphobic2 · October 1, 2023, 6:17pm

How would I count the time?? I’m kinda bad at scripting so lol. thank you for the help btw!!

7z99 · October 1, 2023, 6:36pm

local timeElapsed = 0

while isInFreezer do
    timeElapsed += task.wait()
end

Earthraphobic2 · October 1, 2023, 9:25pm

Where and how would I add this? The entire line of code is after the while true do, and it won’t run.

7z99 · October 1, 2023, 9:43pm

It would depend how your code is set up but you’d probably do something like this:

local TIME_TO_FREEZE = 120 -- say it takes 120 seconds for them to fully freeze
local FROZEN_COLOUR = Color3.new(0.0313725, 0.662745, 1) -- the colour the player will be when they are fully frozen

-- now to get the colour for each body part:
local head = character:FindFirstChild('Head')
local headColour = head.Color

local timeElapsed = 0
local isFreezing = false

local function updateColour()
    local colourInterpolated = bodyColour:Lerp(FROZEN_COLOUR, math.clamp(timeElapsed / TIME_TO_FREEZE, 0, 1))
    head.Color = colourInterpolated
    -- assign colourInterpolated to the rest of the body parts
end

script.Parent.Door.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function()
    isFreezing = not isFreezing
    if isFreezing then
        while isFreezing do
            timeElapsed += task.wait()
            updateColour()
        end
    else
        timeElapsed = 0
        updateColour()
    end
end)

Earthraphobic2 · October 2, 2023, 8:30pm

Thanks for this, however it appears that I just instantly turn blue! Do you know why this is happening? There is no errors in the output

I have modified the code a little bit so it applies to every part in the body and it fits my situation. However, I am pretty sure I did not break it to be causing this. Just in case, here is my modified code of yours.

-- timeElapsed on the following line would be the duration for which they were in the freezer or began freezing
local TIME_TO_FREEZE = 20 -- say it takes 20 seconds for them to fully freeze
local FROZEN_COLOUR = Color3.new(0.0313725, 0.662745, 1) -- the colour the player will be when they are fully frozen

local timeElapsed = 0
local isFreezing = false

local function updateColour(plr)
	-- now to get the colour for each body part:
	local head = plr.Character:FindFirstChild('Head')
	local ra = plr.Character:FindFirstChild('Right Arm')
	local la = plr.Character:FindFirstChild('Left Arm')
	local rl = plr.Character:FindFirstChild('Right Leg')
	local ll = plr.Character:FindFirstChild('Left Leg')
	local t = plr.Character:FindFirstChild('Torso')
	local colourInterpolated = head.Color:Lerp(FROZEN_COLOUR, math.clamp(timeElapsed / TIME_TO_FREEZE, 0, 1))
	local colourInterpolated1 = ra.Color:Lerp(FROZEN_COLOUR, math.clamp(timeElapsed / TIME_TO_FREEZE, 0, 1))
	local colourInterpolated2 = la.Color:Lerp(FROZEN_COLOUR, math.clamp(timeElapsed / TIME_TO_FREEZE, 0, 1))
	local colourInterpolated3 = rl.Color:Lerp(FROZEN_COLOUR, math.clamp(timeElapsed / TIME_TO_FREEZE, 0, 1))
	local colourInterpolated4 = ll.Color:Lerp(FROZEN_COLOUR, math.clamp(timeElapsed / TIME_TO_FREEZE, 0, 1))
	local colourInterpolated5 = t.Color:Lerp(FROZEN_COLOUR, math.clamp(timeElapsed / TIME_TO_FREEZE, 0, 1))
	head.Color = colourInterpolated
	ra.Color = colourInterpolated1
	la.Color = colourInterpolated2
	rl.Color = colourInterpolated3
	ll.Color = colourInterpolated4
	t.Color = colourInterpolated5
	-- assign colourInterpolated to the rest of the body parts
end

script.Parent.Door.ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function(plr)
	isFreezing = not isFreezing
	if isFreezing then
		while isFreezing do
			timeElapsed += task.wait()
			updateColour(plr)
		end
	else
		timeElapsed = 0
		updateColour(plr)
	end
end)

mayoozzzz · October 2, 2023, 8:44pm

You can try to use a Highlight as well if that works for you. There are some issues with this, but it should work. Make sure the depth mode is set to Occluded. If you parent it to a model without setting an adornee the entire model will be highlighted.

Earthraphobic2 · October 4, 2023, 9:22pm

But i want the skin color itself to turn blue, I don’t want a highlight.