Giving a folder to player without storing it in the player or character?
How would I go about showing a script that a folder with belongs to a certain player, I tried doing this another way by naming the folder the players name, but this caused many issues. I also thought about storing it in the player/character, but it isn't very secure. Any suggestions?
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Hey.
There's nothing really "insecure" about parenting a folder to the player; in fact, it's a pretty common method to storing player data. Although if you're opposed to it, here are a couple of other methods you can use...
1) You can create a module and keep a dictionary in it with all of the player data. It can be indexed with module.Data[game.Players.playername]. I recommend this method because it's pretty easy to do and allows you to store any data without having to create a specific value object. This can also be achieved using a normal table, but I'm assuming you would prefer a module because it can be accessed from other scripts without any hassle.
2) If you're opposed to parenting all of your objects to a folder named in correlation with players' names, you can parent them to an ObjectValue with its Value property set to the player object. This is also a pretty easy method to use, and to index it, you would have to iterate through the folder of values and find the one with the value that matches the player.
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Thanks, Sam