Calling functions when joining/leaving

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#41

yep, its in the equiponjoin function which works, all i gotta do is change the stringvalue’s value when the player leaves. thats where it fails to do so as it cant find the “aura” folder

#42

In your equipOnJoin function, it does not explicitly state the load the profile data. Which leads me to believe that they are not loading the saved data at all.

#43

no wait lemme explain the function:

local function equipOnJoin(player, char) --this works
	local aurafolder = char:WaitForChild("Aura")
	local currentaura = player:WaitForChild("CurrentAura")
	
	if currentaura.Value ~= "" then
		aurahandler.EquipAura(player, player.Character, game.ReplicatedStorage.Auras[currentaura.Value])
	end
end

so basically the saved value is “currentaura” and i need to equip a certain aura which is equal to the saved value.
so then i use the equipaura function which will equip an aura and this aura is actually equal to the saved value (game.ReplicatedStorage.Auras[currentaura.Value]).

#44

so all thats left is to change that value and it will equip the right aura

#45

Apologies, but I am not following with what you’re saying.

#46

so like rn all i need is that it changes the value of “currentaura” (which is done within the saveAura function) so i simply need to call the function right before leaving which is what i cant do

#47

I’m going to be honest I don’t see any code that shows you loading the saved aura from the datastore into the game. You’re essentially just loading the default aura here. I hope you understand that it doesn’t automatically load things for you.
Set currentaura to the value you saved in the datastore, and then see if that fixes the issue.

#48

nvm i got it working i just had to change it to when a child is added/removed from the aura folder

local function saveAura(player)
	local profile = datamanager.Profiles[player]
	local aura = player.Character:FindFirstChild("Aura"):FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Folder") --where i get the error

	if aura then
		profile.Data.CurrentAura = aura.Name
		player:FindFirstChild("CurrentAura").Value = profile.Data.CurrentAura
		print("Successfully saved the aura "..aura.Name.." to "..player.Name..".")
	else
		profile.Data.CurrentAura = ""
		player:FindFirstChild("CurrentAura").Value = profile.Data.CurrentAura
	end
end

local function equipOnJoin(player, char)
	local aurafolder = char:WaitForChild("Aura")
	local currentaura = player:WaitForChild("CurrentAura")

	if currentaura.Value ~= "" then
		aurahandler.EquipAura(player, player.Character, game.ReplicatedStorage.Auras[currentaura.Value])
	end
end




game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) 
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
		equipOnJoin(player, char)
		char:WaitForChild("Aura").ChildAdded:Connect(function()
			saveAura(player)
		end)
		char:WaitForChild("Aura").ChildRemoved:Connect(function()
			saveAura(player)
		end)
	end)
end)
#49

anyways thanks y’all for ur help :smiley:

#50

So best one is findfirstchild? But that also gives me error sometime.

#51

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