What is the point of Color3.new?

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#1

There are different ways to change colors with fromRGB, fromHex, and fromHSV. What is the point of using .new, if I can just use these ones?

#2

Color3.new is just another option for setting colors. Why not have it?

#3

Color3 is used for precise coloring of objects on screen through properties like BasePart.

#4

So basically just Pick Color but using scripting?

#5

You can use Color3 in scripting. For example, you may want to change the color of a part every few seconds you wouldn’t be able to achieve this without using a script.

EDIT: Coding example

while true do
    part.Color = Color3.new(253, 20, 242)
    task.wait(2)
    part.Color = Color3.new(0, 255, 0)
end
#6

That still doesn’t make sense to me but thanks haha

#7

With numbers ranging from 0-255, you would use Color3.FromRGB.

#8

Color3 is more:
Universal.
Precise.
Colorful.
overall Better.

#9

Color3.new was most likely the oldest method of setting colors, ranging from 0 to 1 until roblox bring out the Color3.fromRGB.

There’s not a lot of uses for Color3.new nowadays. It has almost been replaced by other ways like fromRBG, fromHSV, etc.

I doubt anyone uses some of these, but some scenarios include:

  • Supposedly, numerous APIs uses these kinds of values. That’s one way, we could grab those kinds of values and use it for our code.
  • From this kind of range in a programmer’s perspective, you get to understand the percentage of how much the colors are.
    So let’s say if blue is 0.6, it means that color would be 60% blue.
  • Lerping could be made easier since it only provides the value 0 to 1.
  • If you’re just lazy to type it out.
white = Color3.new(1,1,1)
white = Color3.FromRGB(255,255,255)
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#10

Each method of creating a color has it’s own use case.

fromRGB() is used when you want to create a color using rgb values.
fromHSV() is used when you want to create a color using hsv values.
fromHex() is used when you want to create a color using a hexadecimal value.
new is used when you want to create a color using percentages. All colors will be printed out as 0-1.

None are obsolete and each one is better in different circumstances. For example, using hexadecimal is preferred if memory is a concern.

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#11

Take a look: