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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How to change property of all parts with the same name? [Solved!]
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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:
modelOfBricks = game.Workspace.Model --The model with all the bricks in it.
nameOfBricks = "ColorChange" --The name of the blocks that should be changed (keep quotations).
for i,v in pairs(modelOfBricks:GetChildren()) do
if v.Name == nameOfBricks then
--Change properties here. I'll put one below as an example.
v.Transparency = .5 --Changes every brick's transparency to .5 if they have the name.
end
end
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No need to put all the parts in a model as Discern above stated.
function b(loc,name,wantedTrans,can)
for _,v in pairs(loc:GetChildren()) do
if v:IsA("BasePart") and v.Name == name then
v.Transparency = wantedTrans
v.CanCollide = can
else
b( v, name, wantedTrans, can )
end
end
end
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!
function changeProps(loc,name,propArray)
for _,v in pairs(loc:GetChildren()) do
if v:IsA("BasePart") and v.Name == name then
for prop,value in pairs(propArray) do
v[prop] = value
end
else
changeProps(v,name,propArray)
end
end
end
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.
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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.
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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.
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!