How would I save a players inventory?
I made an inventory system that basically works by a player purchasing something and it being cloned from the Replicated Storage into a GUI which has UIGridLayout in it to position them, but I want to know if there's a better solution than having a bool value such as (ownsitem_1, ownsitem_2...) because as of now doing that would be tedious.
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Ok so I have considerable experience with inventories, I use them all the time. The best way I believe to do this is by using a folder to either store the data needed with named data objects like so - - when the player joins you can clone this to the player like so -
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(plr)
local newFolder = game.ServerStorage.Inventory:Clone()
newFolder.Parent = plr
end)
You would want to load the data into the folder, this can be done with datastores as so -
local DSS = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local invStore = DSS:GetDataStore("inv")
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(plr)
local newFolder = game.ServerStorage.Inventory:Clone()
newFolder .Parent = plr
local plrData = invStore:GetAsync("USER_"..plr.UserId)
--Then to test if the data exists
if plrData then
--Player has data
for index,value in pairs(newFolder:GetChildren()) do
if plrData[value.Name] then
value.Value = plrData[value.Name]
end
end
end
end)
This should load the data into the folder from the datastore, now you want to be able to save. This is simple enough -
game.Players.PlayerRemoving:connect(function(plr)
local data ={}
for index,invData in pairs(plr.Inventory:GetChildren()) do
data[invData.Name] = invData.Value
end
invStore:SetAsync("USER_"..plr.UserId, data)
end
Now the data should load and save. You can edit the data easily enough, for example -
plr.Inventory.Stone.Value = 100 --or plr.Inventory.Fly.Value = true
I hope I have helped and if there is something broken just ask!
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