Hello. I am currently working on a game where you can purchase a frame, and put any decal you want on it, and it says there forever. Currently, I have made the frame, and a metal plate below it saying the price. I want it to say when it has been bought, it displays the name of the buyer. I have never worked with DataStores before and I an quite new to scripting, and I want to work on this as my first project. I currently do not know how to save the owner of the frame, and the decal of the frame. (There will be multiple frames for sale)
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There are many tutorials you can find on DataStorages but to start have a look at:
You’re going to most likely want to look at tutorials specifically at saving tables of data in datastorages so you can save a table of all the boards, the owner of them, and the decal ID.
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Okay. For example, if someone buys a frame, I save their Id, then save the decal id? Then when a server starts, I load the owners name and then change the image to the saved decal?
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You would have to save it in a table so you can save all the relevant data, but other than that yes.
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Are there any examples of this?
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I think this would work?
local Event = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent
local DSS = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local DS = DSS:GetDataStore("DecalData")
-- have it fire this event when the player purchases it
-- have the "data" variable (or whatever you name it) be a table containing the UserId of the player who purchased it, the Decal being edited, and the Decal Id (Decal first, Decal Id second, Player UserId third)
-- also make sure in the script for purchasing that the Decals in the table are in the same order
Event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(data)
local DecalNumber = data[1]
local DecalId = data[2]
local UserId = data[3]
local epicdata = { -- name this variable whatever you want
DecalId,
UserId
}
DS:SetAsync(DecalNumber, epicdata)
end)
and in another script
local DSS = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local DS = DSS:GetDataStore("DecalData")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Decals = {
workspace.Part.Decal
-- Define all the decals here
}
local TextLabels = {
workspace.Part2.TextLabel
-- Define all the textlabels here, also you can write this so that these don't have to be in the same order
-- but for simplicities sake put the textlabels in the same order as the Decals
}
while wait(10) do
for i in pairs(Decals) do
local data = DS:GetAsync(i)
if data then
local textlabel = TextLabels[i]
local decal = Decals[i]
local ImgId = data[1]
local Player = data[2]
local PlayerName = Players:GetNameFromUserIdAsync(Player)
textlabel.Text = PlayerName
decal.Texture = ImgId
end
end
end
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Would you be able to tell me where to put these scripts & what kind of scripts?
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those are both server scripts, and you would put them in serverscriptservice
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The frame: 
In the Buy prompt:
script.Parent.Triggered:Connect(function(plr)
print(plr.UserId)
game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent:FireServer(script.Parent.Parent.Parent, 143751304, plr.UserId)
end)
In changepainting:
local DSS = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local DS = DSS:GetDataStore("DecalData")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local FrameFolder = workspace.Frames
local Decals = {
FrameFolder.FrameSM1,
}
local Plates = {
FrameFolder.FrameSM1.MetalFrame,
}
while wait(10) do
for i in pairs(Decals) do
local data = DS:GetAsync(i)
if data then
local Plates = Plates[i]
local decal = Decals[i]
local ImgId = data[1]
local Player = data[2]
local PlayerName = Players:GetNameFromUserIdAsync(Player)
Plates.Header.Donated.SurfaceGui.SIGN.Text = "This painting has been donated by:"
Plates.Header.Giver.SurfaceGui.SIGN.Text = PlayerName
decal.Image.Facer.Texture = ImgId
decal.Curtain.Transparency = 1
end
end
end
in onserverevent:
local Event = game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent
local DSS = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local DS = DSS:GetDataStore("DecalData")
-- have it fire this event when the player purchases it
-- have the "data" variable (or whatever you name it) be a table containing the UserId of the player who purchased it, the Decal being edited, and the Decal Id (Decal first, Decal Id second, Player UserId third)
-- also make sure in the script for purchasing that the Decals in the table are in the same order
Event.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(data)
print("caught")
local DecalNumber = data[1]
local DecalId = data[2]
local UserId = data[3]
local DataTable = { -- name this variable whatever you want
DecalId,
UserId
}
DS:SetAsync(DecalNumber, DataTable)
end)
do you see anything wrong that I have done? again, I don’t script that much.
Nothing changes, and it doesn’t print “Caught”
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i haven’t looked through all of it, but in the buy prompt localscript you sent the model instead of the decal
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That was intentional. In changepainting, the decal is the model. I just didnt change the name of it. (sorry about that)
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i think i might’ve found the problem? I don’t think I made it clear that you should send the number of decals, not the decals themselves
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How would I fix it? I don’t think I understand that.
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Make a table of all the decals, and when you send the data from the client to the server send #(name of the table) instead of the table itself.
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Could you create an example of it while I try and do it myself? This is quite confusing for me.
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You’ll easily hit datastore limits with this, you need to leave 6 seconds between every datastore request to not exceed your limits.
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That is simply not true, I know this because I’ve sent multiple datastore requests at nearly the same time before and it work just fine
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I think this should work?
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local plr = Players.LocalPlayer
script.Parent.Triggered:Connect(function()
print(plr.UserId)
local sendData = {
1, -- change to be whatever number it coresponds to in the table in the "changepainting" script
143751304,
plr.UserId
}
game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent:FireServer(sendData)
end)
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Errors only occur when you try to send more than 10 requests per player in a minute (there is also an extra 20 requests that can be used, but it should be only used for server functions, as it doesn’t scale with players).
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I’ve changed the local script, but it’s still not even printing.
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