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:
01 | local charNames = {} |
02 | local charCFrames = {} |
03 | for a, b in pairs(plr.Character:GetChildren()) do |
04 | if b:IsA("Accessory") then |
05 | for c, d in pairs(b:GetChildren()) do |
06 | if d:IsA("Part") then |
07 | table.insert(charNames, #charNames, b.Name) |
08 | table.insert(charCFrames, #charCFrames, d.CFrame) |
09 | end |
10 | end |
11 | end |
12 | end |
Here is the script that retrieves the values:
01 | local count = 0 |
02 | for a, b in pairs(plr.Character:GetChildren()) do |
03 | if b:IsA("Accessory") then |
04 | for c, d in pairs(b:GetChildren()) do |
05 | if d:IsA("Part") then |
06 | for e, f in pairs(charNames) do |
07 | if d.Parent.Name == tostring(f) then |
08 | local newPos = charCFrames[count] |
09 | d.CFrame = newPos |
10 | print(newPos) |
11 | end |
12 | count = count +1 |
13 | end |
14 | end |
15 | end |
16 | end |
17 | end |
18 | 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;
1 | local function serializeCFrame(cf) |
2 | local serializedString = "" |
3 | local components = cf:GetComponents() |
4 | for _, component in ipairs({components}) do |
5 | serializedString = component.." " |
6 | end |
7 | return serializedString |
8 | end |
And here is how you would deserialize it to get back the CFrame into a CFrame value:
1 | local function deserializeCFrame(str) |
2 | local t = table.create(12) -- a CFrame has 12 components |
3 | for match in string.gmatch("%S+") do -- look for non-whitespace |
4 | t[#t + 1] = match |
5 | end |
6 | return CFrame.new(unpack(t)) -- convert table to tuple |
7 | end |
You can save each property seperately as so:
1 | local saveCFrame = {} |
2 |
3 | local charCFrame = char.PrimaryPart.CFrame |
4 | saveCFrame["X"] = charCFrame.X |
5 | saveCFrame["Y"] = charCFrame.Y |
6 | saveCFrame["Z"] = charCFrame.Z |