Storing color3 values in datastores?

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13 days ago

This is my datastores script I use for various games, I want to do a customizable character system where you can change your colour schemes but the output keeps saying it can't save the color3 value and I figured you can't save regular C3 values so I wanted to see how I could go about that in the context of this script

I need the C3 values specifically since the colour-changeable parts of your character take their colours from a color3 value in the player and the color3 value has a script that changes the color3 value in the datastores (playerstats folder) when it senses a change in the color3 value in the player and when a player respawns it checks the color3 value in the player and updates itself to that one so it has a 2-way communication system, the only problem is that I can't save the color3 value in datastores

local datastore = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local ds2 = datastore:GetDataStore("LightSaveSystem")
local ds3 = datastore:GetDataStore("PrimarySaveSystem")
local ds4 = datastore:GetDataStore("SecondarySaveSystem")
local ds5 = datastore:GetDataStore("MasterSaveSystem")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(plr)
 local folder = Instance.new("Folder", plr)
 folder.Name = "playerstats"



    local Light = Instance.new("Color3Value", folder)
    Light.Name = "Light"


    local Primary = Instance.new("Color3Value", folder)
    Primary.Name = "Primary"


    local Secondary = Instance.new("Color3Value", folder)
    Secondary.Name = "Secondary"

    local Master = Instance.new("BoolValue", folder)
    Master.Name = "Master"



    Light.Value = ds2:GetAsync(plr.UserId) or Color3.new(0/255, 255/255, 0/255)
    ds2:SetAsync(plr.UserId, Light.Value)


    Primary.Value = ds3:GetAsync(plr.UserId) or Color3.new(0/255,0/255,0/255)
    ds3:SetAsync(plr.UserId, Primary.Value)


    Secondary.Value = ds4:GetAsync(plr.UserId) or Color3.new(255/255,255/255,255/255)
    ds4:SetAsync(plr.UserId, Secondary.Value)


    Master.Value = ds5:GetAsync(plr.UserId) or false
    ds5:SetAsync(plr.UserId, Master.Value)


    Light.Changed:connect(function()
        ds2:SetAsync(plr.UserId, Light.Value)
 end)


    Primary.Changed:connect(function()
        ds3:SetAsync(plr.UserId, Primary.Value)
 end)

    Secondary.Changed:connect(function()
        ds4:SetAsync(plr.UserId, Secondary.Value)
    end)

    Master.Changed:connect(function()
        ds5:SetAsync(plr.UserId, Master.Value)
    end)


end)

then save a table like {255, 255, 255} representing the color and then table[1] == r, table[2] == g, table[3] == b imKirda 2268 — 13d

How do I do this? I have no experience with tables and don't know how to do that in context with this script FakeWhatWeDontKnow 0 — 13d

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User#40702 70

13 days ago

I would do what's called a serialization. Essentially, store a table with the RGB values of the Color3.

ds:SetAsync(plr.UserId, {
    R = color.R,
    B = color.B,
    G = color.G
})

When you want to access, it, you have to deserialize it.

local serializedColor = ds:GetAsync(plr.UserId)
local color = Color3.new(serializedColor.R, serializedColor.B, serializedColor.G)

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