Datastore for building game

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Howdy devs.
Do any of you know how I’d be able to save all placed parts in a workspace and also load them when the player joins? I’m using this for a building system, much like the famous game “Plane Crazy”. If anyone can guide me in the right direction, that would be stellar.

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You could either save them as strings, bools, or numbers inside a Dictionary of some sort when you save the Data for the player

Possibly something like this?

local PartsToSave = {
    Part1Position = {
        X = 50,
        Y = 0,
        Z = 30,
    }

    Part2Position = {
        X = 40,
        Y = 5,
        Z = 32,
    }
}
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Usually, you would get the center of the “base”, and use baseCenterCFrame:ToObjectSpace(blockCFrame) to find the relative position.

You can make it relative to the world with baseCenterCFrame:ToWorldSpace(savedCFrame).

If you want the data to take as little space as possible, you would save the LookVector and the x, y, z components.

If you don’t really care about storage, you could just save the entire CFrame.

Since you can’t store a userdata in a datastore, you have to use tables to store the components.

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When I want to load these parts into the game, would I use a for loop to do so? How would you recommend doing it?

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Since your base data is in a table, you have to iterate through the table to deserialize and load them.

You could have a Save function and a Load function.

local function Save(base)
    local serialized = {}
    for i, v in pairs(base:GetChildren()) do
        -- stuff
    end
    return serialized
end
-- and a load function
local function Load(serialized)
    local base = Instance.new("Model")
    for i, v in pairs(serialized) do
        -- do stuff
    end
    return base
end
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That narrows things down a lot, thanks. I’ll give it a shot and get back to you in the near future.

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