How do you assign a saving variable to a player?
Ok. So, I understand this as a very basic idea of assigning a variable, but I want to be able to have the ability to update and save. I've read up on the DataStoreService and I am just confused on how I do this in reality for my script. I just want to be able to store a numerical value.
So far, I have basically this. I need help with the logic of the pathway to storing it.
1 | game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player) |
2 | -- This is where I am stuck, I don't know where to store the variable, but I believe the code for it would go here, initialized to 1, not 0. |
3 | print (player.name .. "Has entered the server.") -- Announces a person joining, and to check if its worked this far |
4 | end) |
5 |
6 | for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do |
7 | PlayerAdded(player) |
8 | end |
Please help, Thanks.
1 answer
game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("RandomNumbers"):SetAsync(player.Name, math.random(1,10)) -- Sets the value of the key named as the player's name to any random number between 1 and 10 within the DataStore named "RandomNumbers"
print(game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("RandomNumbers"):GetAsync(player.Name) -- Prints the value of the key named as the player's name within the DataStore named "RandomNumbers".
A DataStore is a.. Group of Keys. A key can hold any type of Value, it can be numbers, booleans, strings, or Lua tables.
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