How to check for certain brick colors for parts?

TheSleepyScripter · August 21, 2022, 7:32am

Hello! I was wondering how I can check if a BrickColor is something (Eg: if part.BrickColor == "Quill grey" then)

Checking for strings doesn’t work and there doesn’t seem to be any Enum.BrickColor. Any help would be much appriciated. Thanks!

Koiyukki · August 21, 2022, 7:34am

If Part.BrickColor == BrickColor.red then
print(“Part color is red”);
end;

ZombieCrunchUK · August 21, 2022, 7:37am

if part.BrickColor==BrickColor.new("Quill grey") then

Deadstatic77 · August 21, 2022, 7:41am

Why did you put ; at the end of each line?

Downrest · August 21, 2022, 7:42am

It’s just personal preference (most of the time).

What does ; do?

In other programming languages like Java, C++, C#, etc. the semicolon is a statement separator. Some just like bringing over their habits from those languages. In Lua they really only have 2 uses.

Some people often use semicolons rather than commas (,) to delimit table entries:
local t = {
    a = 0;
    b = 1;
    c = 2
}
Which is valid.

They are also used to prevent ambiguous syntax:
local n = 7/(3 + 0.5)

(function()
    print("hi")
end)()
In this example it can be interpreted in 2 ways: local n = 7/(3 + 0.5) can either be its own statement, or due to the parentheses at the bottom, it could be seen as continuing off the first statement.
7/(3 + 0.5)(function() print("hi") end)()
It could be seen like you’re trying to call the number.

Or it could be seen as
local n = 7/(3 + 0.5); -- notice the ;

(function()
    print("hi")
end)()
That is where a semicolon would be useful.

Koiyukki · August 21, 2022, 7:45am

It essentially does nothing, it’s just a force or habit of mine, please ignore it!

Koiyukki · August 21, 2022, 7:46am

But if you’ve found the answer to your problem, please select a solution.

Forummer · August 21, 2022, 4:05pm

Checking for strings doesn’t work and there doesn’t seem to be any Enum.BrickColor. Any help would be much appriciated. Thanks!

‘BrickColor’ values have a ‘Name’ property that you can index.

if Part.BrickColor.Name == "Quill grey" then

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/datatype/BrickColor