BrickColor.Random Exceptions

[alexfinger21 (pro)]

I found this tutorial - Example on how to get all brickcolors - Resources / Community Tutorials - Developer Forum | Roblox

Basically, you would just do

local Colors = {}

for i = 1, 1032 do
    local BrickColorValue = BrickColor.new(i)
    if not table.find(Colors, BrickColorValue) and BrickColorValue ~= "undesired value" then
        table.insert(Colors, BrickColorValue)
    end
end
--use this statement anytime you need to get a random color:
local randomColor = Colors[math.random(#Colors)]

[pulse_tech]

Definitely will not be able to work that in. Ever

[alexfinger21 (pro)]

Here’s a script that might work for you:

local Colors = {}

for i = 1, 1032 do
    local BrickColorValue = BrickColor.new(i)
    if not table.find(Colors, BrickColorValue) and BrickColorValue ~= "undesired value" then
        table.insert(Colors, BrickColorValue)
    end
end

while true do
    p1.BrickColor =  Colors[math.random(#Colors)]
--rest of your script
end

[pulse_tech]

So do I just paste the rest in, then?

[alexfinger21 (pro)]

well you would need to set the p1/p2/p3 brick color to Colors[math.random(#Colors)], but then yes, you would

[pulse_tech]

As in I just need to add p2 and p3 under p1, or?

Sorry I only know enough about scripting to make frames, I’m not familiar with this kind of stuff

[alexfinger21 (pro)]

Yes, and then you want to make sure the if statement
if not table.find(Colors, BrickColorValue) and BrickColorValue ~= "undesired value" then includes your brick values as undesired values

[pulse_tech]

@alexfinger21

if not table.find(Colors, BrickColorValue) and BrickColorValue ~= “undesired value” then

Assume I can just add a comma, then the next values?

[alexfinger21 (pro)]

no, you would have to add and BrickColorValue ~= “undesired value” for every color value you don’t want

[pulse_tech]

Used the

or

function, worked perfectly

[lElderBerry (Kibble)]

Oh god learn collectionservice, it will organize this so much…

[pulse_tech]

Never heard of it. I honestly don’t care either. It’s a dancefloor pattern not the entire game

[lElderBerry (Kibble)]

All of your code would be 4 lines bro.
Its so much faster, way less work, way more efficient

[pulse_tech]

Is there a documentation page?

[lElderBerry (Kibble)]

CollectionService in a nutshell

CollectionService in a nutshell

[collectionservice_inanutshell] Hello! This is a post about CollectionService, in a nutshell. What’s CollectionService? Well, CollectionService is a service which allows you to manage groups of instances using tags which are simple strings, but you can’t see them. CollectionService is very useful since it allows us to run functions or change properties from large groups of parts with a single script. Instead of having 10 scripts that do the same, you only have 1. Learning how to use this se…

[pulse_tech]

So it’s just an unnecessarily complicated version of GetChildren()?

[lElderBerry (Kibble)]

No.

It allows you to tag instances and enact functions, events, and changes on all of them instantly.

[alexfinger21 (pro)]

it wouldn’t matter for this case since they’re all under the parent object

[pulse_tech]

@CollectionService in a nutshell

? Well, CollectionService is a service which allows you to manage groups of in

Now that I’m noticing, you are telling me to use a service that gets groups of parts from one ancestor. This is both useless when talking about a model that already exists with barely any children (even if there were too many, getchildren() would do the job), and when talking about colours. I don’t understand what I am going to do with CollectionService while I am trying to exclude colours from a randomizer. I don’t want to rewrite my script. I want to change the colours in it