Saving and retrieving CFrame from a table?
Essentially, I am trying to make it so mid-game, the player's character Rig Type can change. Despite successfully allowing the type of character to change, the Accessories position is not in place. To fix this, I am saving the CFrames in a table and then retrieving them to apply it to the new character. As far as I am concerned, CFrames contain commas, which would automatically separate indexes in the table rather than saving it as one total CFrame. Is there any way I can save it as one value so I can retrieve it later?
Here is the script that saves the values:
local charNames = {}
local charCFrames = {}
for a, b in pairs(plr.Character:GetChildren()) do
if b:IsA("Accessory") then
for c, d in pairs(b:GetChildren()) do
if d:IsA("Part") then
table.insert(charNames, #charNames, b.Name)
table.insert(charCFrames, #charCFrames, d.CFrame)
end
end
end
end
Here is the script that retrieves the values:
local count = 0
for a, b in pairs(plr.Character:GetChildren()) do
if b:IsA("Accessory") then
for c, d in pairs(b:GetChildren()) do
if d:IsA("Part") then
for e, f in pairs(charNames) do
if d.Parent.Name == tostring(f) then
local newPos = charCFrames[count]
d.CFrame = newPos
print(newPos)
end
count = count +1
end
end
end
end
end
count = 0
Thank you in advance!
2 answers
Serialize the CFrame in whichever way you prefer, tables or strings work. You do want to save it as one value so then a string is the best method here. My method is to serialize it into a string with spaces in between the numbers then when deserializing, those spaces serve to separate each coordinate number.
I prefer strings;
local function serializeCFrame(cf)
local serializedString = ""
local components = cf:GetComponents()
for _, component in ipairs({components}) do
serializedString = component.." "
end
return serializedString
end
And here is how you would deserialize it to get back the CFrame into a CFrame value:
local function deserializeCFrame(str)
local t = table.create(12) -- a CFrame has 12 components
for match in string.gmatch("%S+") do -- look for non-whitespace
t[#t + 1] = match
end
return CFrame.new(unpack(t)) -- convert table to tuple
end
You can save each property seperately as so:
local saveCFrame = {}
local charCFrame = char.PrimaryPart.CFrame
saveCFrame["X"] = charCFrame.X
saveCFrame["Y"] = charCFrame.Y
saveCFrame["Z"] = charCFrame.Z