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Why does leaderstats not show up in my player? (player.leaderstats)

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Hoogidy_Boogidy 18

3 years ago

Edited 3 years ago

I'm using Datastore 2 and sometimes, when I play, I get an error: "leaderstats is not a valid member of Player "Players.Hoogidy_Boogidy" - Client - DisplayCoinsAmount:4". If you used Datastore 2 before, or watched Alvin Blox's tutorial about it, then you know that you can save data in studio by adding a Boolean Value set to true in ServerStorage. If leaderstats isn't showing up because of that, then please tell me.

I have 2 scripts. The first one is "DisplayCoinsAmount", which is the one that gave the error and the one that displays the amount of coins the player has, in a GUI. The second script is "SaveData", which is the one that creates the Folder, "leaderstats" and saves the coins for the player. I can't get Roblox studio to give me the error again. It only happened twice.

Here is my 2 scripts:

DisplayCoinsAmount:

1local plr = script.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent
2 
3game:GetService('RunService').RenderStepped:Connect(function()
4    script.Parent.Text = tostring(plr.leaderstats.Coins.Value)
5end)

SaveData:

01local DS2 = require(1936396537)
02local DefaultValue = 0
03 
04game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
05    local coinsDS = DS2('Coins', plr)
06    local leaderstats = Instance.new('Folder', plr)
07    local coins = Instance.new('IntValue', leaderstats)
08 
09    leaderstats.Name = 'leaderstats'
10    coins.Name = 'Coins'
11 
12    local function updateCoins(updatedValue)
13        coins.Value = coinsDS:Get(updatedValue)
14    end
15 
16    updateCoins(DefaultValue) -- Idk what these two lines are supposed to do
17    coinsDS:OnUpdate(updateCoins) -- I just copied Alvin Blox :|
18 
19    while wait() do
20        coins.Value = coinsDS:Get()
21    end
22end)
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I would appreciate if you would help! Thank you! :D

Edit:

I tried using game.Loaded, but I don't know what that does

Code:

01local DS2 = require(1936396537)
02local DefaultValue = 0
03 
04game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
05    local coinsDS = DS2('Coins', plr)
06 
07    repeat wait() until(game.Loaded)
08 
09    local leaderstats = Instance.new('Folder', plr)
10    local coins = Instance.new('NumberValue', leaderstats)
11 
12    leaderstats.Name = 'leaderstats'
13    coins.Name = 'Coins'
14 
15    local function updateCoins(updatedValue)
16        coins.Value = coinsDS:Get(updatedValue)
17    end
18 
19    updateCoins(DefaultValue)
20    coinsDS:OnUpdate(updateCoins)
21 
22    while wait() do
23        coins.Value = coinsDS:Get()
24    end
25end)
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I would reocmmend using normal datastore; much simpler. PufferfishDev 49 — 3y

Normal datastore is long, and DS2 saves data better. Hoogidy_Boogidy 18 — 3y

does it show leaderstats in the player in the explorer (when you click play)? FirewolfYT_751 223 — 3y

Yes, but when I get the error, that means it isn't there. Hoogidy_Boogidy 18 — 3y

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Maybe try using "WaitForChild("")" a few times to get the player..? ZIRFAL3 17 — 3y

maybe add a WaitForChild on leaderstats, maybe your client script is executing too fast before the server can load the leaderstats the8bitdude11 358 — 3y

Where would I add the WaitForChild? Hoogidy_Boogidy 18 — 3y

Replace line 4 with -- script.Parent.Text = tostring(plr:WaitForChild("leaderstats"):WaitForChild("Coins").Value) JustinWe12 723 — 3y

That only gets rid of the error. But leaderstats isn't there. So, it's just waiting for leaderstats forever. Sorry for not replying sooner!!!!!!! Hoogidy_Boogidy 18 — 3y

What do you mean by leaderstats isn't there, is it not showing up on the top right corner of the game? JustinWe12 723 — 3y

it isn't showing in my player Hoogidy_Boogidy 18 — 3y

2 answers

Answered by

JesseSong 3916

3 years ago

Sorry for the late answer, but this should work!

Problem: It's pretty hard to explain but the reason it didn't work was because the playerevent was declared after the variables, when it should be on top:

(Also ensure that this is in a server script (normal script) I changed your last script!

01game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
02local DS2 = require(1936396537)
03local DefaultValue = 0
04 
05    local coinsDS = DS2('Coins', plr)
06 
07    repeat wait() until(game.Loaded)
08 
09    local leaderstats = Instance.new('Folder', plr)
10    local coins = Instance.new('NumberValue', leaderstats)
11 
12    leaderstats.Name = 'leaderstats'
13    coins.Name = 'Coins'
14 
15    local function updateCoins(updatedValue)
16        coins.Value = coinsDS:Get(updatedValue)
17    end
18 
19    updateCoins(DefaultValue)
20    coinsDS:OnUpdate(updateCoins)
21 
22    while wait() do
23        coins.Value = coinsDS:Get()
24    end
25end)
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Thx for trying! Hoogidy_Boogidy 18 — 3y

message me when you get the correct answer! JesseSong 3916 — 3y

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Answered by

moneyislands1 51

3 years ago

Edited 3 years ago

put wait(3) on line 1 it will wait 3 seconds so it will be loaded and wont make error bcs it will find it. this is script for saving folders. if someone need normal saving for folders :)

01local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
02local playerData = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("PlayerData")
03 
04local function onPlayerJoin(player)
05    local folder = Instance.new("Folder", player)
06    folder.Name = "leaderstats"
07 
08    local money = Instance.new("NumberValue", folder)
09    money.Name = "Money"
10 
11    local playerUserId = "Player_"..player.UserId
12    local data = playerData:GetAsync(playerUserId)
13    if data then
14        money.Value = data["Money"]
15        -- here u can add more values from top
16    else
17        money.Value = 0
18    end
19end
20 
21local function create_table(player)
22    local player_stats = {}
23    for _, stat in pairs(player.leaderstats:GetChildren()) do
24        player_stats[stat.Name] = stat.Value
25    end
26    return player_stats
27end
28 
29local function onPlayerExit(player)
30    local player_stats = create_table(player)
31    local success, err = pcall(function()
32        local playerUserId = "Player_"..player.UserId
33        playerData:SetAsync(playerUserId, player_stats)
34    end)
35    if not success then
36        warn("Could not save data")
37    end
38end
39 
40game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerJoin)
41game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(onPlayerExit)
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I'm using Datastore 2 Hoogidy_Boogidy 18 — 3y

but wait should help moneyislands1 51 — 3y

what if the player didn't fully load? Hoogidy_Boogidy 18 — 3y

Sorry for not replying sooner Hoogidy_Boogidy 18 — 3y

Why does leaderstats not show up in my player? (player.leaderstats)

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