Low graphics mode

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#1

I am making a low graphics mode into my game which changes every part’s material to plastic. I need help figuring out a way to remember the parts material before it was switched to plastic so there was a way to change the low graphics back into normal graphics.

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#2

The performance impact of a Part’s material should be negligible; those images are already stored on their computer and wouldn’t even take up that much when in memory. I don’t think this would be worth doing at all.

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#3

I still wanna do it just because it also adds a different style to the game.

#4

I guess you could just use CollectionService to tag the parts with whatever material they used to be, and loop back through using GetTagged to set it back to normal.

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#5

For a low graphics mode I’d recommend doing this except with CastShadow, because that actually helps performance.

I’m going to do it, and big games like Arsenal do it too

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#6

I’m not only doing it for low graphics I’m also doing it for style.

#7

Collection Service is very confusing to me and I have trouble understanding it. Do you know any good video tutorials?

#8

I made this quick script for ya

--// LocalScript

local StoredMaterials = {}

for i, part in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
	if part:IsA("BasePart") then
		table.insert(StoredMaterials, i, part.Material)
	end
end

print(game:GetService("HttpService"):JSONEncode(StoredMaterials))

local enable = script.Parent.yes
local disable = script.Parent.nop

enable.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	for _, part in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
		if part:IsA("BasePart") then
			part.Material = Enum.Material.Plastic
		end
	end
end)

disable.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
	for i, part in pairs(workspace:GetDescendants()) do
		if part:IsA("BasePart") then
			part.Material = StoredMaterials[i]
		end
	end
end)

You just need a table to store the materials also it drops a error it stills works but you got the idea.

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Low Graphic mode button in game
#9

I’m not going to be using this script exactly but I’m going to be taking ideas from it, thank you!

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#10

So what I did was I used a dictionary the key being the part name and the value was the part’s material. It worked out exactly how I wanted it to!

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