Hello! I’m having an issue with a recent script I’ve been working on that disables textures (sets their material to smooth plastic and disables decals and textures) and re-enables them.
Basically what this does is that once it’s enabled, it…
1 - Locates every part under workspace
2 - Inserts itself into a dictionary with the value being their old material (e.g workspace.Part = Enum.Material.Concrete)
3 - Sets the part’s material to SmoothPlastic
It should be assumed how it works once disabled. Within the game I’m making this for, there’s a feature that unloads parts away from the player to save data, StreamingEnabled. The block of code I’m having issue is when enabled and a part is added to workspace, via loading from StreamingEnabled, it wont set the material to the material saved in the dictionary under the same part’s index. Let me know if you have any ideas!
--// Loaded / new part texture reset
workspace.DescendantAdded:Connect(function(instance)
if disabled then
--[[if instance:IsA("BasePart") then
PartCache[instance] = instance.Material
instance.Material = Enum.Material.SmoothPlastic
elseif instance:IsA("Texture") or instance:IsA("Decal") and not instance:IsDescendantOf(Players:GetPlayers().Character) and decals then
ElementCache[instance] = instance.Transparency
instance.Transparency = 1
end]]
elseif not disabled then -- Block of malfunctioning code vvv
if instance:IsA("BasePart") and PartCache[instance] ~= nil then -- 1st makes sure part is a basepart and if the part has a material saved
instance.Material = PartCache[instance] -- Sets part's material from the saved index, this doesnt seem to work but setting other properties of the part seems to for some reason
table.remove(PartCache, table.find(PartCache, instance)) -- Removes index
elseif instance:IsA("Texture") or instance:IsA("Decal") and ElementCache[instance] ~= nil then -- Same as above but for decal and texture instances
instance.Transparency = ElementCache[instance]
table.remove(ElementCache, table.find(ElementCache, instance))
end
end
end)
local Enumeration = Enum
local Game = game
local Workspace = workspace
local RunService = Game:GetService("RunService")
local Camera = Workspace.CurrentCamera
local Cache = {}
local RenderDistance = 100
local function OnDescendantAdded(Descendant)
if Descendant:IsA("BasePart") then
Cache[Descendant] = {Material = Descendant.Material}
elseif Descendant:IsA("FaceInstance") then
local BasePart = Descendant:FindFirstAncestorOfClass("BasePart")
if not BasePart then return end
Cache[Descendant] = {Transparency = Descendant.Transparency, BasePart = BasePart}
end
end
local function OnDescendantRemoving(Descendant)
if Descendant:IsA("BasePart") then
Descendant.Material = Cache[Descendant].Material
Cache[Descendant] = nil
elseif Descendant:IsA("FaceInstance") then
Descendant.Transparency = Cache[Descendant].Transparency
Cache[Descendant] = nil
end
end
local function OnRenderStep()
for Object, Data in pairs(Cache) do
if Object:IsA("BasePart") then
local Distance = (Camera.CFrame.Position - Object.Position).Magnitude
Object.Material = if Distance > RenderDistance then Enumeration.Material.Plastic else Data.Material
elseif Object:IsA("FaceInstance") then
local Distance = (Camera.CFrame.Position - Data.BasePart.Position).Magnitude
Object.Transparency = if Distance > RenderDistance then 1 else Data.Transparency
end
end
end
RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(OnRenderStep)
Workspace.DescendantAdded:Connect(OnDescendantAdded)
Workspace.DescendantRemoving:Connect(OnDescendantRemoving)
for _, Descendant in ipairs(Workspace:GetDescendants()) do
OnDescendantAdded(Descendant)
end
Thanks for the response! This would make sense as my studio has been buggy all day, mainly UI issues such as their positions not saving and being all white. Anyways, thanks for letting me know!
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