Equip/Unequip Accessories as well as sorting them in a GUI?

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#1

Hello. I currently need help on how to equip and unequip accessories. I will explain the sorting part later.

First: I have the buying of the accessory all worked out but how do I make a seperate Equip and Unequip function? I tried to code a equip button and it added the accessory to the humanoid but the character is not shown to be wearing it. So from scratch, how do I make a Equip and Unequip button?

Second: Sorting the accessories,
Now, i’m trying to wrap my head around this one but I can’t seem to figure it out. What I am trying to do is when a player buys lets say a Hat, it gets added (and sorted if there are multiple accessories the player bought) to the player’s inventory and then the player can equip it. How do I do this?

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#2

You’re gonna need an inventory gui, and to add hats to a player, use Humanoid:AddAccessory().

#3

An inventory GUI will not work. It is used for tools and items in the starter pack. I am doing accessories here. I did exactly what you said (the code) and it didn’t work. (Previous I was already using it as explained in the post)

#4

Oh, well in the title it says “sorting them in a GUI” so I assumed you were making an inventory gui. No, you cannot easily sort a players inventory without placing them in order manually.

#5

I did say Hat and it is obviously not a tool. And yes, that’s why I’m asking how

#6

you can’t put a hat into somebodys inventory.
you HAVE to use a gui in order to make a hat inventory.

its not possible to put hats into the inventory unless you make them into tools that equip the hat.

#7

To equip an accessory, the accessory needs to be located in the character. Just put the accessory in the character and it will automatically be put in place (If its a roblox catalog item).

#8

I’m sorry. I think I have not made it clear. I made the GUI where you can buy the hat. When you buy it, it creates an accessory in the character. But it does not show up on their character. Then I want the player to have the option to unequip the item.

About the sorting, when the player buys a hat, I want the script to detect that the hat was bought and add it to the inventory. (This is my own GUI inventory. Not roblox’s)

#9

Yep. It is located in the character and it is also a catalog item but it does not show them wearing it.

#10

You will want to create an inventory gui that shows what hats they have. You should store what hats they have in a datastore and when the player presses to equip the hat.

Below is a quote from a forum that might help you add the hats. (I took out stuff you wont need.)

#11

Yeah. How do I make the inventory GUI exactly? Just need some brief explanations. When a player buys the hat, it will be added to their inventory and they can equip it from there. How can I do that? Maybe some pseudo code will help! Thank you!

#12 
DSS = game:GetService("Datastore Service")
-- this wont work as is, you need to sort out the datastores.
local HatNames = ""
for i = 1,#HatInventory do
     HatNames = HatNames .. HatInventory[i].Name .. ";"
end
DSS:SetAsync(tostring(PlayerId),HatNames)

local HatList = {}
local Hats = DSS:GetAsync(tostring(PlayerId))
local Split = string.split(Hats,";")
for i = 1,#Split do
    if Split[i] == "HatName" then
         table.insert(HatList,Split[i])
         -- Make hat in thier inventory.
    end
end
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