As the title suggests I’m having issues with saving a player characters position, or rather loading it, not sure what’s the problem exactly.
For a few hours now I’ve been running into this problem where the Datastore2 module succesfully saves the exact position based on the HRP, according to the print function, but whenever I load a character the Datastore2 ignores the data that was saved after the player left and just loads the default value (SpawnLake), any help would be appreciated.
Here’s my code for functions that deal with loading and saving the position
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
LoadPrimaryData(player)
player.CharacterAdded:connect(function()
LoadPosition(player)
player.CharacterRemoving:connect(function(char)
------------------Positions------------------
local charHealth = char.Humanoid.Health
local currPosX = char.HumanoidRootPart.Position.X
local currPosY = char.HumanoidRootPart.Position.Y
local currPosZ = char.HumanoidRootPart.Position.Z
local currPos = Vector3.new(currPosX, currPosY, currPosZ)
if charHealth > 0 then
SavePosition(player, currPos)
elseif charHealth <= 0 then
local SpawnFirst = game.Workspace.SpawnFirst
local SpawnKingsMercy = game.Workspace.SpawnKingsMercy
local SpawnLake = game.Workspace.SpawnLake
local SpawnLumber = game.Workspace.SpawnLake
local FirstDist = (SpawnFirst.Position - currPos).Magnitude
local KingsMercyDist = (SpawnKingsMercy.Position - currPos).Magnitude
local LakeDist = (SpawnLake.Position - currPos).Magnitude
local LumberDist = (SpawnLumber.Position - currPos).Magnitude
local DistanceTable = {
{SpawnFirst,FirstDist};
{SpawnKingsMercy,KingsMercyDist};
{SpawnLake,LakeDist};
{SpawnLumber,LumberDist};
}
table.sort(DistanceTable,
function(a,b)
return a[2] < b[2]
end)
for i, v in pairs(DistanceTable) do
if i == 1 then
currPos = Vector3.new(v[1].Position.X, v[1].Position.Y, v[1].Position.Z)
SavePosition(player, currPos)
end
end
end
end)
---------------------Positions-----------------
end)
end)
local function SavePosition(player, currPos)
if player.leaderstats:FindFirstChild("Slot") then
local slot = player.leaderstats.Slot.Value
local userPosX = DataStore2("PosX" .. slot, player)
local userPosY = DataStore2("PosY" .. slot, player)
local userPosZ = DataStore2("PosZ" .. slot, player)
userPosX:Set(currPos.X)
userPosY:Set(currPos.Y)
userPosZ:Set(currPos.Z)
print("Position saved as " .. "X-" .. userPosX:Get("None") .. " Y-" .. userPosY:Get("None") .. " Z-" .. userPosZ:Get("None"))
end
end
local function LoadPosition(player)
if player.leaderstats:FindFirstChild("Slot") then
local slot = player.leaderstats.Slot.Value
local userPosX = DataStore2("PosX" .. slot, player)
local userPosY = DataStore2("PosY" .. slot, player)
local userPosZ = DataStore2("PosZ" .. slot, player)
wait(1)
player.Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(userPosX:Get(game.Workspace.SpawnLake.Position.X),userPosY:Get(game.Workspace.SpawnLake.Position.Y),userPosZ:Get(game.Workspace.SpawnLake.Position.Z)))
print("Position loaded as " .. "X-" .. userPosX:Get("None") .. " Y-" .. userPosY:Get("None") .. " Z-" .. userPosZ:Get("None"))
end
end
—Edit:
I’ve pasted the functions straight out of my script, but the load and save functions are ABOVE the player.Added function
the slot variable is equal to the leaderstats.Slot.Value, it’s just a leaderstats I use to determine which character slot you’re using, I don’t think that’s the issue.
Thanks for the quick reply
I know, but if Slot doesn’t exist, then your code will not execute. Therefor, the position will not be loaded.
I suggest trying the following:
if player.leaderstats:WaitForChild("Slot", 5) then -- 5 Seconds is optional. Leave it blank for infinite wait time. (Can hang if Slot is never found.)
local slot = player.leaderstats.Slot.Value
local userPosX = DataStore2("PosX" .. slot, player)
local userPosY = DataStore2("PosY" .. slot, player)
local userPosZ = DataStore2("PosZ" .. slot, player)
wait(1)
player.Character:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(userPosX:Get(game.Workspace.SpawnLake.Position.X),userPosY:Get(game.Workspace.SpawnLake.Position.Y),userPosZ:Get(game.Workspace.SpawnLake.Position.Z)))
print("Position loaded as " .. "X-" .. userPosX:Get("None") .. " Y-" .. userPosY:Get("None") .. " Z-" .. userPosZ:Get("None"))
end
It could very well be that Slot is just not loaded in time. Try waiting for it and see how it goes.
But wouldn’t the output tell me if the code breaks? I’m sure that slot exists whenever this function fires becouse it’s loaded before this function is called
Slot is created on player added, and the load function is called upon when the character is created
Datastore2 allows you to define a default value inside those brackets, as in, if the player is joining the game for the first time, after he made his character, he would spawn at the SpawnLake part, but it should prioritize the variable:Get instead of the brackets, they’re there just in case there’s no data in the datastore, which there is as it prints out from the data store itself right after saving
