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How can I save properties of an instance with datastore?
I've looked at the developer hub article and i'm still left confused.
Basically I want to save the properties of an instance, such as a number value or bool value, and have those saved by datastore, and when a player joins it changes the properties of the instance to what was saved, anybody know a good place to start with this?
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Personally, if I were to attempt to upload the properties of an Instance, I would create a array of each property I wish to iterate through, and create a function to return a dictionary of each value for upload to our DataStore
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local PropertyData = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("Properties")
local Player = game:GetService("Players”).LocalPlayer
local PartProperties = {
"BrickColor", "Material", "Name"
}
local Part = workspace.Part
function GetPartProperties(Part)
if not (Part) then return end
local Properties = {}
for _,Property in pairs(PartProperties) do
Properties[Property] = Part[Property]
end
return Properties
end
PropertyData:SetAsync(Player.UserId.."Properties", GetPartProperties(Part))
This is not the full answer, this does most of the lifting either way. The rest of the code is left to you to try!