I have been working on a game, and i dont know if Materials are giving lag, so my question is simple: Materials gives lag? If yes then what material i should use? or use SmoothPlastic? Thanks for helping 
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The default materials Roblox provides would not produce additional lag, no.
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Through all my time of building, I don’t think different materials cause any lag.
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Yes materials in ROBLOX produce lag including your own custom texture. if you take a huge city for example with full of materials and replace those materials with smooth plastic you will notice a difference in its performance. People do know how to manage with textures though, but it depends on you if you want that style or not.
Yes, technically they do produce very small amounts of lag due to it taking more time to compute the extra details in the material, however this difference is extremely minute and shouldnt really be bothered with. OP, please just use whatever materials suit your game’s aesthetics best.
Yeah really doesn’t matter just make the game you want to make that’s what’s roblox is for… but uh… not including bad stuff. lol
I’m pretty sure different materials don’t add or reduce lag, hmm. Time to ask Roblox Staff!
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