SOLVED] Making A Text Box Change A Player's Hat Color With RGB Values

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#1

Hello,
I am currently making a hat customizer system and was wondering how exactly I could get these rgb values to change the color of a hat? So far I have this:
Local Script:

local p = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local AccessoryName = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.TextLabel.Text -- making sure its the right accessory
script.Parent.MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()
-- there are 3 text boxes serving as the rgb value changer
	local r = tonumber(script.Parent.Parent.Parent.R.Text)
	local b = tonumber(script.Parent.Parent.Parent.G.Text)
	local g = tonumber(script.Parent.Parent.Parent.B.Text)
	game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").CustomEvents.Rgb:FireServer(p, AccessoryName, r, g, b)  

end)

Server Script:

game.ReplicatedStorage.CustomEvents.Rgb.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(p, AccessoryName, r, g, b)
	local children = p.Character:GetChildren()
	for i, child in ipairs(children) do
			if child:IsA("Accessory") then
			if child.Name == AccessoryName then
				child.Handle.Color = Color3.fromRGB(r, g, b)
				
			end
			end
		end
	end)

I tried handle.Color, handle.Mesh.Vortexcolor and nothing works, I can’t find any articles on how to achieve this. Does anybody know how I could possibly achieve this?

#2

Update, tried a bunch of things. Still unsure.

#3

from what i remember you cant change the color of a basepart object that have special mesh parented to it
however there is a special basepart where it have meshid property that function exact the same like special mesh but you can change it color

#5

i tried vertex color, regular color, etc and i still cant find any solutions or anything regarding the basepart you speak of.

#6

Actually, you can. The SpecialMesh just has to have no texture. Besides, SpecialMeshes aren’t used in Accessories anymore, at least not by default. Older places might still be using SpecialMeshes.

#7

If you want to change an accessory’s color, you’ll need to set the TextureID property of the corresponding MeshPart to a blank string, and then change the Color property of that MeshPart.

game.ReplicatedStorage.CustomEvents.Rgb.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(p, AccessoryName, r, g, b)
	local children = p.Character:GetChildren()
	for i, child in ipairs(children) do
			if child:IsA("Accessory") then
			if child.Name == AccessoryName then
                local meshPart = child:FindFirstChildOfClass("MeshPart")
                if (meshPart) then
                      meshPart.TextureID = ""
                      meshPart.Color = Color3.fromRGB(r, g, b)
                end
			end
		end
	end)

SpecialMeshes aren’t used in accessories anymore, so don’t worry about checking for them. It’s only MeshParts now, unless R6 is enabled in your place.

#8

Weird. I added a print to the thing, and it’s not printing or changing the color. No errors in output either. This doesn’t make much sense.

#9

You don’t need to sent the player through the remote event, that is automatically done when firing a remote event

On the receiving end the AccessoryName argument would also be the player, r would be the accessory name, etc

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#10

How would I find the character though if I don’t send the player? I need the player argument to find the character to get the hats.

#11

As I said, the first argument of RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent() is player no matter what

It’s automatically passed through whenever a client does FireServer. This more of a security thing so that someone can’t send a different player through the remote event and thus act like they’re someone else

If I did this on the client

Remote:FireServer(123, true)

On the server I’d get

Remote.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(a, b, c)
    print(a, b, c) -- kingerman88, 123, true
end)
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#12

It worked perfectly! Thank you a lot, mr kingerman88

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