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Saving and retrieving CFrame from a table?

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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!

Anonymous

2 answers

✓ Accepted answer

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
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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
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