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Data store script to store a part's property isn't working?

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4 years ago

I wanna make it so when the part is touched it changes it's color, also I want it to Data Store that part's Color when a player joins and when a player leaves, it's my first time trying to Data Store a part's property so of course it's going to fail the first time and that's why I'm here, to get some help from you Advanced scripters. :D

Code, a bit too long.

01local datastoreservice = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("BrickColorDatastore")
02local part = game.Workspace.coolpart
03 
04part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
05    if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
06        part.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Really red")
07    end
08end)
09 
10 
11game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
12    local success,errmsg = pcall(function()         
13        datastoreservice:SetAsync(player.UserId,part.BrickColor)
14        part.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Really red")
15    end)
16 
17    if success then
18        print("Part's color has been stored")
19    else
20        print("Part's color failed to store")
21        warn(errmsg)
22    end
23 
24end)
25 
26 
27game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
28    local success, errmsg = pcall(function()        
29        datastoreservice:SetAsync(player.UserId,part.BrickColor)        
30    end)
31    if success then
32        print("Data store successed")
33    else
34        print("Data store failed")
35        warn(errmsg)
36    end
37end)
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Output errors:

So this is what the output is showing when I join the game in Roblox Studio:

Cannot store int in data store. Data stores can only accept valid UTF-8 characters.

Details.

I don't really know if its possible to data store a part's property but I believe it can.

The script is parented to ServerScriptService

The Part name is "coolpart". Probably not helpful of a detail.

Anyways, thanks for helping if you did or tried your best, I think it's a easy thing for you to solve this right..?

I think maybe you should be GETTING the Async when you join not setting it but that's just me AngryPlaayer 17 — 4y

I tried that but sorry it didn't work but thanks for trying to help ZombieApocalypz3 35 — 4y

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AngryPlaayer 17

4 years ago

I think it means you have to store the value in less than 8 characters. You should find a way to shorten the color value, here's a solution that may not be the GREATEST but, it fixes your problem.

01local datastoreservice = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("BrickColorDatastore")
02local part = game.Workspace.coolpart
03 
04part.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
05    if hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
06        part.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Really red")
07    end
08end)
09 
10 
11game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
12    local color = Instance.new("IntValue")
13    color.Name = "BrickColorStore"
14    color.Parent = player
15 
16    local success, errmsg = pcall(function()  
17        part.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Really red")
18        if part.BrickColor == "Really red" then
19            player.BrickColorStore.Value = 1
20            datastoreservice:SetAsync(player.UserId, player.BrickColorStore.Value)
21        end
22        if part.BrickColor == "Hot pink" then
23            player.BrickColorStore.Value = 2 -- continue to do this for all the colors will be
24            datastoreservice:SetAsync(player.UserId, player.BrickColorStore.Value)
25        end
26    end)
27 
28    if success then
29        print("Part's color has been stored")
30    else
31        print("Part's color failed to store")
32        warn(errmsg)
33    end
34 
35end)
36 
37 
38game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
39    local success, errmsg = pcall(function()  
40        part.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Really red")
41        if part.BrickColor == "Really red" then
42            player.BrickColorStore.Value = 1
43            datastoreservice:SetAsync(player.UserId, player.BrickColorStore.Value)
44        end
45        if part.BrickColor == "Hot pink" then
46            player.BrickColorStore.Value = 2 -- continue to do this for all the colors your part will be
47            datastoreservice:SetAsync(player.UserId, player.BrickColorStore.Value)
48        end
49    end)
50end)
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I don't know why you would need to get a value just to change the color of a part to a set color but I'm not you so I wouldn't know lol

Thank for helping, I know it's not a efficient way but I can take it :D ZombieApocalypz3 35 — 4y

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