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#1

Fifth topic, nothing too special but not really an issue either but I’m just wondering something:

The Mesh object has been on the horizon for ROBLOX for quite some time now, and there a certain property on there that confuses me a bit, which is the VertexColor

The VertexColor property supposedly takes a Vector3 value (With the variables being X, Y, and Z), and I’m wondering as to why that is instead of a Color3 value?

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I am aware that I could just convert the Vector3 into a Color3 value that the API Reference gives me, but it still shouldn’t take a function to convert it

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#2

Because you’re not actually setting the color of the texture, you’re remapping it’s original coloring using a vector. It’s a displacement of color rather than actually recoloring to a specific color.

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#3

So if I were to change a SpecialMesh’s VertexColor by

VertexColor = Vector3.new(2, 0, 0)

I’m assuming it would add onto the original Mesh’s Color as well?

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#4

Yes. However remember that, like Color, the range for each component is [0,1] or [0,255/255].

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#5

Ooooh that explains why my eyes burn whenever I set the VertexColor to a high number, yeah I understand now thanks for the explanation!