Trying to Change Materials & Color After a Transparency Tween

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#1

I’m trying to make it so that the material of the parts in an object turn to Bright red and have a ForceField material during the transparency tween, and then turn back to the original material and color the part had once the transparency tween is finished.

Without the wait(2.25), the transparency tween works, but the material and color do not change, they stay the original color and material.

When the wait(2.25) is introduced right before changing “v” back to the original material and transparency, all of the parts are loaded in with a transparency of 0, and each individual part is tweened at a time.

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local function TweenVisible(Model, Time)
	local VisibleInfo = TweenInfo.new(Time, Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, Enum.EasingDirection.InOut, 0, false, 0)
	local Tweens = {}
	for _, v in pairs(Model:GetDescendants()) do
		if v:IsA("BasePart") then
			
			local OriginalColor = v.BrickColor
			local OriginalMaterial = v.Material
			
			v.Material = Enum.Material.ForceField
			v.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Bright red")
			
			v.Transparency = 1
			local Tween = TweenService:Create(v, VisibleInfo, {Transparency = 0})
			Tweens[v] = Tween
			Tween:Play()
			
            wait (2.25)
			v.Material = OriginalMaterial
			v.BrickColor = OriginalColor
		end
	end 
	return(Tweens)
end

This is the portion of the script in which the function is called later on.

if v:FindFirstChild("Price") and Player:WaitForChild("leaderstats").Cash.Value >= v.Price.Value then
						if not Debounce then
							Debounce = true
							Player.leaderstats.Cash.Value -= v.Price.Value
							Items[v.Item.Value].Parent = BoughtItems
							v.ButtonPart.Building:Play()
							local time = 2.25 --Time for tween to take
							local ButtonTween = TweenService:Create(v.ButtonPart, TweenInfo.new(time), {Transparency = 1})
							local Tweens = TweenVisible(BoughtItems[v.Item.Value], time)


							ButtonTween:Play()
							wait(2.25)

							v:Destroy()
							Debounce = false
						end
					end
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#2

Your issue is that your waiting inside the for loop, meaning that each tween will be waited on individually.

local function TweenVisible(Model, Time)
	local VisibleInfo = TweenInfo.new(Time, Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, Enum.EasingDirection.InOut, 0, false, 0)
	local Tweens = {}
	for _, v in pairs(Model:GetDescendants()) do
		if v:IsA("BasePart") then
			
			v:SetAttribute("OriginalColor", v.BrickColor)
			v:SetAttribute("OriginalMaterial ", v.Material)
			
			v.Material = Enum.Material.ForceField
			v.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Bright red")
			
			v.Transparency = 1
			local Tween = TweenService:Create(v, VisibleInfo, {Transparency = 0})
			Tweens[v] = Tween
			Tween:Play()
		end
	end
    
    wait(2.25)
    
    for _, v in pairs(Model:GetDescendants()) do
        v.Material = v.GetAttribute("OriginalMaterial")
	    v.BrickColor = v.GetAttribute("OriginalColor")
    end
	return(Tweens)
end
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#3

I get an error stating that Material is not a supported attribute type.

I edited the function to the following, and it allowed for the color part to work. Perhaps there is another way I have to tell the script what material is?

local function TweenVisible(Model, Time)
	local VisibleInfo = TweenInfo.new(Time, Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, Enum.EasingDirection.InOut, 0, false, 0)
	local Tweens = {}
	for _, v in pairs(Model:GetDescendants()) do
		if v:IsA("BasePart") then

			v:SetAttribute("OriginalColor", v.BrickColor)
			--v:SetAttribute("OriginalMaterial", v.Material)

			--v.Material = Enum.Material.ForceField
			v.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Bright red")

			v.Transparency = 1
			local Tween = TweenService:Create(v, VisibleInfo, {Transparency = 0})
			Tweens[v] = Tween
			Tween:Play()
		end
	end

	wait(2.25)

	for _, v in pairs(Model:GetDescendants()) do
		if v:IsA("BasePart") then
			--v.Material = v:GetAttribute("OriginalMaterial")
			v.BrickColor = v:GetAttribute("OriginalColor")
		end
	end
	return(Tweens)
end
#4

My bad, I forgot attributes don’t support things like enums.

local function TweenVisible(Model, Time)
	local VisibleInfo = TweenInfo.new(Time, Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, Enum.EasingDirection.InOut, 0, false, 0)
	local Tweens = {}
	local Materials = {}
        for i, v in pairs(Model:GetDescendants()) do
		if v:IsA("BasePart") then

			v:SetAttribute("OriginalColor", v.BrickColor)
                        Materials[i] = v.Material
			v.Material = Enum.Material.ForceField
			v.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Bright red")

			v.Transparency = 1
			local Tween = TweenService:Create(v, VisibleInfo, {Transparency = 0})
			Tweens[v] = Tween
			Tween:Play()
		end
	end

	wait(2.25)

	for i, v in pairs(Model:GetDescendants()) do
		if v:IsA("BasePart") then
			v.Material = Materials[i]
			v.BrickColor = v:GetAttribute("OriginalColor")
		end
	end
	return(Tweens)
end
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#5

Thank you for your help, I’ll have to look up info on attributes, this is my first time seeing one in a script, somehow.

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#6

Glad to help! Here’s the developer article post about attributes:

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