Help on creating Data Character Slots

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#1

Hi, I’m looking to learn about how I can go about creating a character slots system, an example would be vestaria, like how a player can choose one slot then create their character and then choose another slot to make another character.

However can someone guide me on how I can go about doing the data slots ( preferably 3 slots a player can use), I’m not asking for someone to fully script this for me, just asking for guidance and tips

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#2

Funnily enough, Vesteria is actually open source, you can find its code here: GitHub - berezaa/vesteria: Vesteria is a fantasy MMORPG on Roblox- originally founded by berezaa, sk3let0n and Polymorphic in the Roblox Incubator program.

Anyways, you could accomplish this in a few ways, but by far the most popular two would be:

1: having separate data slots in your datastore depending on which character they’re using

  • What I mean by this is that you would store each character separately in a database using a key like ]UUID]_[slot], and have a central database that stores things that carry over between character slots, and also stores which slot is currently selected

2: using 1 data system for all character slots

  • What I mean by this is that you would store all of your data in a single database, and you would include an array of all of your character slots within that data, and you would also have a key/value pair indicating which character slot is currently selected

Note: when I say database I really mean datastore

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#3

Thank you very much replying, just to make sure I’m understanding correct what you’re saying, please can you demonstrate an example for 1 and 2?

Is 1) like [“Slot1”] = {Coins = 0, Level = 0}, [“Slot2”] = {Coins = 0, Level = 0}, et cetera and would it use like the same key e.g. player’s user Id to access the data of player? so if I were to get data of a player from their player Id key, would all those slots be stored under the Player Id Key data?

#4

This is a bumping procedure: bump

#5

each slot should be treated as different data slots.
for me it wouldnt require multiple datastores since my code runs off a visual hierarchy of folders
and values that can be infinite.

although i recommend doing something like this

if slot1 == picked then
local DataToGet = player.UserId…“Slot”…Number:GetAsync()

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#6

Thank you, I also have a folder (stats folder) that stores values such as “coins” “level”, et cetera in it, please can you give an example how you would implement this method with folders and values?

#7

templatefolder serverstorage then for each new slot i would clone the contents of the templatefolder and have them put under a folder called SlotSlotNumber. i would have my code detect the folders name as a slot and save every instance value name + value/if folder it creates new table with all values inside and repeats until it returns everything creating a dictionary. then when they join game all you need is a value in player called PickedSlot and then the options of all folders with “Slot” at the start of the name

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