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How Should I Save Gui Stats for Every Player?

Asked by

animelover6446 41

8 years ago

Edited 8 years ago

So I'm trying to think of a way to save stats of players. They are not leaderstats but instead stats saved in a gui as IntValue's. I don't even know how to start with something like this. Can someone help? Thanks in advance. You don't have to example with a script. Just ideas are fine.

3 answers

Answered by

thehybrid576 294

8 years ago

Edited 8 years ago

Yes you can use a DataStore

http://wiki.roblox.com/index.php?title=PlayerDataStore_module

Here is a quick example:

--Server Script (DataStore must always be in a Server Script)

local datastore = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("Values")
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(plr)
    local key = "user_" .. plr.UserId --Set a unique key that contains saved values for each player

    local leaderstats = Instance.new("Model", plr) --Creates a leaderboard
    leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"

    local Cash = Instance.new("IntValue", leaderstats) --Inserts a value inside of leaderstats
    Cash.Name = "Cash" --How the value will show up in the leaderboard
    Cash.Value = datastore:GetAsync(key) or 0 --Gets "Cash"s value from the DataStore, if not found for the player, it will automatically be set to 0

    Cash.Changed:connect(function() --Checks if Cash's value was changed
        datastore:SetAsync(key, Cash.Value) --Saves Cash's value to the DataStore using the unique "key"
    end)
end)