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Help Color3 Problems?

Asked Mar 12, 2015262 views3 answers

When i want to do a color3 on my games to color like fog color it turns into something else even though i put it in the fog color it becomes something else like the color white instead of the color i wanted.

Skills = {"Silence"}
while true do
SkillInUse = Skills[math.random(1, #Skills)]
cooldown = math.random(10,20)
wait(cooldown)
if SkillInUse == "Silence" then
	game.Workspace.ShadowScream:Play()
	game.Lighting.FogEnd = 50
	game.Lighting.FogColor = Color3.new(0,0,0)
	wait(15)
	game.Lighting.FogEnd = 150
	game.Lighting.FogColor = Color3.new(161, 161, 161) -- problem
end
end

AnonymousMar 12, 2015

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You're welcome!

AnonymousMar 13, 2015#

3 answers

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Color3 has only 2 values. 1 and 0. 0,0,0 is black 1,1,1 is white 1,0,0 is red and etc. So why do we use 255? It isn't supposed to be. So to make it not white we need it to be a decimal number. Imagine something 255 times brighter than white. Exactly. So we need to get 161 and divide it by 255.

Skills = {"Silence"}
while true do
SkillInUse = Skills[math.random(1, #Skills)]
cooldown = math.random(10,20)
wait(cooldown)
if SkillInUse == "Silence" then
    game.Workspace.ShadowScream:Play()
    game.Lighting.FogEnd = 50
    game.Lighting.FogColor = Color3.new(0,0,0)
    wait(15)
    game.Lighting.FogEnd = 150
    game.Lighting.FogColor = Color3.new(161/255, 161/255, 161/255) --"/" means divide.
end
end

Pretty simple. Hope it helps!

AnonymousMar 13, 2015Edited Mar 13, 2015Permalink

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thanks :)

AnonymousMar 13, 2015#

Refer to this or this.

AnonymousMar 13, 2015Edited Mar 13, 2015Permalink

3 comments

Lol, too lazy to type another one again? Yeah, it's long. I would just copy and paste :\

AnonymousMar 13, 2015#

Actually, I've referred to these links because a) you can find this topic in ScriptingHelpers because the question is already answered elsewhere, and b) this topic is research-able and can be located easily in Wiki.

AnonymousMar 13, 2015#

This question is everywhere. I even asked this question when I was a scripting noob(Didn't know wiki existed back then)

AnonymousMar 13, 2015#

Hello.

The reason it doesn't work properly is because Color3 takes either a decimal or a fraction.

Wrong way:

Color3.new(161,161,161)

Right way:

Color3.new(161/255,161/255,161/255,)

Fixed Version of your code:

Skills = {"Silence"}
while true do
	SkillInUse = Skills[math.random(1, #Skills)]
	cooldown = math.random(10,20)
	wait(cooldown)
	if SkillInUse == "Silence" then
		game.Workspace.ShadowScream:Play()
		game.Lighting.FogEnd = 50
		game.Lighting.FogColor = Color3.new(0,0,0)
		wait(15)
		game.Lighting.FogEnd = 150
		game.Lighting.FogColor = Color3.new(161/255, 161/255, 161/255) -- problem
	end
end

AnonymousMar 13, 2015Permalink

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