I recently tried to save it, but it wouldn't let me store it in my table as it made it a dictionary. I also tried converting it to a string, but it would not let me do that either. Mainly because you can't convert (1,1,1) back to a number.
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How to save a Color3 value?
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Here's how you can serialize Color3 values as tables and then deserialize them back into Color3s.
local function serializeColor3(color3)
return {color3.r, color3.g, color3.b}
end
local function deserializeColor3(serializedColor3)
return Color3.new(unpack(serializedColor3))
end
local yellow = Color3.new(1, 1, 0)
local serializedYellow = serializeColor3(yellow) -- Save this to datastore
local deserializedYellow = deserializeColor3(serializedYellow)
print(yellow) --> 1, 1, 0
print(serializedYellow) --> table: 2F9381DC
print(deserializedYellow) --> 1, 1, 0
print(yellow == deserializedYellow) --> true
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This is an amazing way thank you. My friend told me to look into hexadecimals is there any way to use it doing that?
A significant amount of custom code would need to be written to convert Color3 values to hexadecimal (since RBXLua doesn't offer a Color3 method for this out-of-the-box), and saving them that way wouldn't offer any benefit in terms of storage size over this method, so there isn't really a reason to. But it is possible.
Awesome ty. Whats your discord man?
gwest2#4333