Checkpoint checker isnt working

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#1

The Saga

Hello! So I’m trying to make a game Cald The Roblox Marathon which is supposed to be something like the impossible obby, but harder. Anyways, I made a Obby Saver, The Checkpoints/Spawn Points when you touch them, their supposed to save your spawn point so when you rejoin the game then you will be put back their. The issue is for some reason It can change my team but also when I rejoined the game then what happened was, It didn’t save my proggress at all and I was taken back to the Lobby.

The Error

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The Scripts

CheckpointScript

local checkpoints = game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Checkpoints"):GetChildren()

-- ^ Returns a table containing all of the stage blocks

for i, checkpoint in pairs(checkpoints) do
	
	-- Any code inside of here will repeat for each checkpoint
	
	checkpoint.TeamColor = game.Teams:FindFirstChild(checkpoint.Name)
	
end

PlayerTeam

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")

local DataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("ObbyLevelData")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local data
	
	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		data = DataStore.GetAsync(player.UserId.."-Stage")
	end)
	
	if success then
		if data then
			player.Team = game.Teams[data]
		else	
			player.Team = game.Teams.Lobby
		end
	else
		player.Team = game.Teams.Lobby
	end


		
end)


game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	
	local teamName = player.Team
	
	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
			DataStore.SetAsync(player.UserId.."-Stage",teamName)
	end)

	if success then
		print("Player Data Successfuly Saved!")
	else
		warn(errorMessage)
	end
end)
#2

You need to do tostring() to get the string of the checkpoint’s name. Otherwise, it would be considered an Instance.

So try

checkpoint.TeamColor = tostring(game.Teams:FindFirstChild(checkpoint.Name))
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#3

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#4

Get the TeamColor of the found Team. (I don’t remember the property name exactly)

local checkpoints = game.Workspace:WaitForChild("Checkpoints"):GetChildren()

-- ^ Returns a table containing all of the stage blocks

for i, checkpoint in pairs(checkpoints) do
	
	-- Any code inside of here will repeat for each checkpoint


	local team = game.Teams:FindFirstChild(checkpoint.Name)

    if team then
        checkpoint.TeamColor = team.TeamColor
    end
end
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#5

Theirs no errors in the output. but for some reason when i rejoined the game my data didn’t get saved.

#6

You cannot store Object values (which Player.Team is) into Datastores.

What you can actually do is just get the Team’s name and save it, then load it and find a Team with that name. You will get an error if you add 'print(errorMessage)' to the PlayerAdded function.

So the code should look something like this:

Save:

local teamName = player.Team.Name

local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
    DataStore.SetAsync(player.UserId.."-Stage",teamName)
end)

if success then
    print("Player Data Successfuly Saved!")
else
    warn(errorMessage)
end

Load:

local data

local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
     data = DataStore.GetAsync(player.UserId.."-Stage")
end)

if success then
    if data then
        player.Team = game.Teams:FindFirstChild(data)
    else
        player.Team = game.Teams.Lobby
    end
else
    player.Team = game.Teams.Lobby
end

Reply if this doesn’t work or you have any questions :slight_smile: (Sorry for any typos!)

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#7

Didn’t work

 09:52:20.357  ServerScriptService.PlayerTeam:39: Expected 'end' (to close 'function' at line 27), got <eof>; did you forget to close 'function' at line 31?  -  Studio - PlayerTeam:39

What I changed

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")

local DataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("ObbyLevelData")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local data

	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		data = DataStore.GetAsync(player.UserId.."-Stage")
	end)

	if success then
		if data then
			player.Team = game.Teams:FindFirstChild(data)
		else
			player.Team = game.Teams.Lobby
		end
	else
		player.Team = game.Teams.Lobby
	end


		
end)


game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	
	local teamName = player.Team.Name

	local success, errorMessage = pcall(function()
		DataStore.SetAsync(player.UserId.."-Stage",teamName)
	end)

	if success then
		print("Player Data Successfuly Saved!")
	else
		warn(errorMessage)
	end
#8

My bad, I didn’t include the PlayerAdded and PlayerRemoving events, only the inside of them.

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