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How to change property of all parts with the same name? [Solved!]
How would I change a property (Transparency, CanCollide, etc.) of every part that has the same name? When I try to do this, it only changes one of them.
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You could put all the bricks in a model, and then use a for loop to change all of them.
Check this out:
1 | modelOfBricks = game.Workspace.Model --The model with all the bricks in it. |
2 | nameOfBricks = "ColorChange" --The name of the blocks that should be changed (keep quotations). |
3 |
4 | for i,v in pairs(modelOfBricks:GetChildren()) do |
5 | if v.Name == nameOfBricks then |
6 | --Change properties here. I'll put one below as an example. |
7 | v.Transparency = .5 --Changes every brick's transparency to .5 if they have the name. |
8 | end |
9 | end |
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Good solution, but there is a chance that OP won't be able to get all the parts into a model. DigitalVeer 1473 — 10y
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I'm sorry I couldn't accept both of them, but this is the one I saw first and used it. It worked. Thanks to all of you! DrCylonide 158 — 10y
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No need to put all the parts in a model as Discern above stated.
01 | function b(loc,name,wantedTrans,can) |
02 | for _,v in pairs(loc:GetChildren()) do |
03 | if v:IsA("BasePart") and v.Name == name then |
04 | v.Transparency = wantedTrans |
05 | v.CanCollide = can |
06 | else |
07 | b( v, name, wantedTrans, can ) |
08 | end |
09 | end |
10 | end |
11 |
12 | b(Workspace,"PartNameHere",.5,true) |
Also, you can make a function to easily choose what properties you want to change directly in the parameters! Using tuples, this is easy!
01 | function changeProps(loc,name,propArray) |
02 | for _,v in pairs(loc:GetChildren()) do |
03 | if v:IsA("BasePart") and v.Name == name then |
04 | for prop,value in pairs(propArray) do |
05 | v[prop] = value |
06 | end |
07 | else |
08 | changeProps(v,name,propArray) |
09 | end |
10 | end |
11 | end |
12 |
13 | changeProps(workspace,'BasePlate',{Transparency=.5,CanCollide=.2,Name="STEVE"}) |
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You really shouldn't use `...` like that. I also don't understand why you're requiring that `v`'s name isn't `"Camera"` -- especially since `v.Name == name` makes that redundant. BlueTaslem 18071 — 10y
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Oh, you're right. Sorry about that. When I wrote ' and v.Name ~= "Camera" ', I had the :IsA("BasePart") part in my mind. And the reason for the tuple is I was writing the solution a different way, but ended up changing it. I'll edit my post. Cheers, Blue. DigitalVeer 1473 — 10y