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Why does this make the background color of the textbutton black? [SOLVED]

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anthonypjo 5
5 years ago
Edited 5 years ago
 
b = Instance.new("TextButton")
        b.Name = deptlist[i].Name
        b.BorderSizePixel = 0
        b.BackgroundTransparency = 1
        print(BrickColor.new(deptlist[i].Color).Color)
        b.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.new(BrickColor.new(deptlist[i].Color).Color)
        b.Text = string.upper(deptlist[i].Name)
        b.TextSize = 50
        b.TextScaled = true
        b.TextXAlignment = "Left"
        b.TextColor3 = Color3.new(255,255,255)
        b.Parent = teams.Selection

deptlist[i].Color is a brickcolor

here is the module script

return {

    { ["Name"]          = "Indian Citizen";
      ["Tag"]           = "Citizen";
      ["Color"]         = "Deep orange";
      ["GroupId"]       = 919408;
    };

};
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I think we need more of the code Protogen_Dev 268 — 5y

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DeceptiveCaster 3761 Moderation Voter Community Moderator
5 years ago

Color3.new() can only take a number in each value (x,y,z) from 0 to 1. You must be giving it higher than that range, which forces the color to be black. In order to make the desired color appear, use Color3.fromRGB():

b.BackgroundColor3 = Color3.fromRGB(BrickColor.new(deptlist[i].Color).Color) -- This should fix the problem

Color3.fromRGB() works because its range is from 0 to 255, making it easier to create colors.

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Well it still give me black unfortunately. I have been experimenting with print() If you do like print(BrickColor.new("Earth green").Color) it will print(0.152941, 0.27451, 0.176471) If you add color3.new or color3.fromRGB to this it will give 0,0,0 anthonypjo 5 — 5y
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first of all what is deptlist[i]? DeceptiveCaster 3761 — 5y
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more specifically, where is i defined? DeceptiveCaster 3761 — 5y
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in a module script anthonypjo 5 — 5y
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ok, so why is it defined in a separate script? DeceptiveCaster 3761 — 5y
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because other scripts need to access those values anthonypjo 5 — 5y
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so then what is deptlist? DeceptiveCaster 3761 — 5y
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i edited the question and included the module script which is deptlist anthonypjo 5 — 5y
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Answered by
anthonypjo 5
5 years ago

So I found the answer by experimenting and I figured out (after way too long) that the

color = BrickColor.new(deptlist[i].Color).Color

gives out a color3

So when you change the background color, you do not need to add color3.new(), just color like this

  b.BackgroundColor3 = BrickColor.new(deptlist[i].Color).Color

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