Possible to supply a hex value to solid's color property?

[Lazlo_Hollyfeld]

I know the AE Scripting Guide specifies that we have to supply an array of RGB values if we wish to change a solid's color property.  I'm just curious if it is possible to supply a hex value in lieu of an RGB array.  Does anybody have any experience with a work around?

Thanks!

[Dan Ebberts · Accepted solution]

The conversion is easy enough:

function hexToColor(theHex){

  var r = theHex >> 16;

  var g = (theHex & 0x00ff00) >> 8;

  var b = theHex & 0xff;

  return [r/255,g/255,b/255];

}

Dan

[Lazlo_Hollyfeld]

Hey Dan thanks so much for your expertise and time!  This is really helpful.  I really appreciate it!

[Lazlo_Hollyfeld]

Dan,

Just wanted to add that I didn't realize your function assumed the hex color value would be passed in as `0xFFFFFF`.  My data was passed in as a string such as `FFFFFF`.  To fix, I just added one line:

function hexToColor(theHex){

  theHex = parseInt(theHex,16);

  var r = theHex >> 16;

  var g = (theHex & 0x00ff00) >> 8;

  var b = theHex & 0xff;

  return [r/255,g/255,b/255];

}

Thought this might help somebody who had the same data coming in question.  Thanks, again for the help.

[Sebastien Lavoie]

It did help somebody thanks!

[Davide Boscolo]

Very helpful thanks!

[Roland Kahlenberg]

AE now has a built-in, direct Expression method for hex to RGB conversion. More info here - 
https://ae-expressions.docsforadobe.dev/color-conversion.html