Is it possible to get total number of existing image ID's?

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#1

Im making a random image generator, and i made it simple:

repeat script.Parent.Parent.ImageLabel.Image = "rbxassetid://"..math.random(1,x) task.wait(0.1) until script.Parent.Parent.ImageLabel.IsLoaded

But I don’t know how I’m supposed to get the total number of existing imageIDs and put it at x spot.
Is it even possible?

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#2

I dont think thats possible…
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#3

To answer your question on how to get an upper bound for x, upload an image asset yourself and take the numeric ID from that.

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#4

But the number of images increases dynamically, so when somebody creates another image then there would be no chance for it to randomize

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#5

Thats the best you can do tho

or make x increase with +1 every second and save it in DSS but thats just nonsense

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#6

Yep, good catch! If you wanted to have x dynamically update, couple things you could do…

  • Systematically upload a new asset and get it’s id. This would involve some external web services, I personally wouldn’t know where to start with that. This would be horribly complicated

  • Create a function to “search” for x

  1. Write a “guess” for x that would be insanely large.
  2. Try this, see if it is a valid Id
  3. If it is not valid, divide x by 2 and try again.
  4. Eventually, you will have a value x that is invalid and a value x/2 that is valid. You now have a range for an upper bound
  5. Split the range of [x/2, x] down the middle (mid = (x + (x/2))/2 = (3x/4)). Query this value.
  6. If mid is valid, then you know the upper bound exists in [(3x/4), x]. If it is invalid, you know it is in [x/2, (3x/4)]. Repeat this as an interative process until you reach a range of size 1. This is your final value.

Now, this logic presumes that "rbxassetid://"..x" is valid for all values of x from 1 to x (which is not the case I’m afraid - infact, a majority of your “guesses” will be invalid)

Conclusion being… do you really need to do this? Is there a simpler solution that will achieve the same/similair outcome for you?

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