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What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
I was trying to get a random name from a table/array (this function is in a module) when the function of the module is requested it will return the name obtained from the array and the value of a StringValue will be set to that name. -
What is the issue?
The issue is that when the player is leaving and I want to datastore the value of my StringValue it will appear as nil. If I then go into the game and check the value on the player or on the server the value is clearly there, but once I leave it for some reason goes to nil. I’m data storing more than one value, and these other values datastore correctly and don’t go to nil unlike “name”.
Module:
local module = {}
local NamesM = {"Edward", "Alfred", "Walter", "Anderson", "Andrew", "Xander", "Giotto", "Pietro", "Louis", "Claude", "Gaston",
"Antonio", "Armand", "Leon", "Sergio", "Bruno", "Alvaro", "Dario", "Noe", "Roy", "Maes", "Alex", "Selim", "Jean", "Sig", "Berthold",
"Artemy", "Daniil", "Ivan", "Vladimir", "Igor", "Alexander", "Andrei", "Akim", "Adrik", "Pip", "Jan", "Luke", "Arthur", "William", "Albert",
}
local NamesF = {"Integra", "Natasha", "Elicia", "Sarah", "Gracia", "Catherine", "Trisha", "Rose", "Izumi", "Olivia",
"Seras", "Rip", "Angelica", "Amber", "Ruby", "Nemow", "Anastasia", "Anya", "Irina", "Tatiana", "Vera", "Anna", "Ilya", "Angelina", "Winry", "Rebecca", "Connie", "Alva", "Marie", "Rachel", "Rosalind", "Lise", "Alise", "Mary", "Asima", "Dorothy", "Vera", "Katherine", "Jennifer"
}
local LastNames = {"Armstrong","Dornez","Hellsing","Winkle","Elric","Wagner","Phillips","Klein","Smith","Mustang","Tuffin","Thomas","Katz","Madden","Laurier","Romano","Fischer","Ivanov","Petrof","Smirnoff","Burak","Mellow","Croy","Dankovsky","Lee","Campbell","Elliot","Bowes","Dal","Moen","Rud","Hasen","Johansen","Stanley","Tudor","Markle","Howard", "Eno", "Tsal", "MAxwell", "Valentine", "Max", "Einstein", "Burnell", "King", "Doudna", "Freese", "Bishop", "Victoria", "Widdowson", "Curie"
}
function module.NameChooser(FM)
local Name = 0
local Surname = 0
if FM == "M" then
Name = NamesM[math.random(1, #NamesM)]
elseif FM == "F" then
Name = NamesF[math.random(1, #NamesF)]
end
Surname = LastNames[math.random(1, #LastNames)]
return Name.." "..Surname
end
return module
Server script:
local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local DataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("DataStoreTest")
local RaceModule = require(script.RaceChooser)
local NameModule = require(script.NameModule)
function SetUpData(Player: Player)
coroutine.wrap(function()
local id = Player.UserId
local data = DataStore:GetAsync(id) or {}
local PlayerStats = script.Stats:Clone()
PlayerStats.Parent = Player
PlayerStats:WaitForChild("Gender").Value = data.Gender or "M"
PlayerStats:WaitForChild("Money").Value = data.Money or 50
PlayerStats:WaitForChild("Race").Value = data.Race or RaceModule.GetRace()
PlayerStats:WaitForChild("Name").Value = data.Name or GeneralStuff.NameChooser(PlayerStats.Gender.Value)
end)()
end
function SaveData(Player: Player)
local id = Player.UserId
local PlayerStats = Player:FindFirstChild("Stats")
print(PlayerStats.Name.Value) -- I try to print the value of name to check what is it equal to and it says nil.
print(PlayerStats.Health.Value) -- I print any other value, and it returns the value that it is equal to.
if PlayerStats then
local success, ret = pcall(DataStore.SetAsync, DataStore, id, {
Gender = PlayerStats.Gender.Value,
Name = PlayerStats.Name.Value,
Race = PlayerStats.Race.Value,
Money = PlayerStats.Money.Value,
})
end
end
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(SetUpData)
Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(SaveData)
while true do
wait(60)
for _,players in ipairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
coroutine.wrap(SaveData)(players)
end
end
And here’s is how the properties of the stringvalue appear on client and server, the value is there.
But I print it when saving the data and it is nil.
Hope someone can help me with this. 