Getting brickcolor ID from name?

[picklepiepizza (Lithium)]

I am trying to make a script that will take the name of a brickcolor and return It’s corresponding ID.
ex: mid gray → 1002
List of brickcolors and ID’s: BrickColor | Roblox Creator Documentation

I didn’t find anything on the developer forums about converting brickcolor names to ID’s except this post, but the brickcolor ID’s didn’t seem to match up to the names.

How to get the brickcolor index from the name?

I made a small JavaScript snippet you can run in your browsers dev console (typically press F12): let row = 2 // Change this to the row of the color let offset = 4 // Offset of the color from the left row = row - 1 let pos = 0 for(let i = 1; i <= row; i++) { if (i >= 7) { pos += 13-(i-7) } else { pos += 7+i-1 } } console.log(pos + offset) For example, Ghost Grey is row 6 offset 5: [0gm1x_87731] Offset is the number of times you moved right to get to the color. R…

How do I convert the brickcolor name to it’s ID? Did I miss anything from that post?

[steven4547466 (Steven)]

Hi! Yeah that was for getting colors from the palette. If you want an id from a name try this:

function getIdFromName(name)
	for i = 1, 1032 do
		if name == BrickColor.new(i).Name then
			return i
		end
	end
	return nil
end

This may not be the most efficient, but it’s what came to mind. I’ll edit with any other ideas I come up with.

You can also do BrickColor.new(name).Number maybe? I havent tested that

[CompilerError]

BrickColor.new("yourcolor").Number - see the BrickColor | Roblox Creator Documentation developer wiki

Bear in mind that BrickColor will return a “closest match” if you don’t select one of the BrickColors via name. For example, something like BrickColor.new(1, 1, 1).Number would return 1001 because it’s closest match is Institutional White.

[picklepiepizza (Lithium)]

Yeah, both of those methods work for what I’m doing. Thanks!