Im trying to make it so you can change your body color to green, red, blue, ect.
The problem is that I have no clue how to save it to a datastore and if I do save it how can i replicate it to another place?
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If you need to switch from complex and constantly changing HumanoidDescriptions then you can serialize the humanoid description then save that to a datastore, then you can decode it when you read from the datastore and reapply it when they spawn.
HumanoidDescription.AccessoryBlob and HumanoidDescription::GetAccessories() might be good starting points to decide how and what you want to serialize.
Converting the object to a JSON is probably easiest since you will just need to read in each property into a table and then call HttpService:JSONEncode
local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local SerializedDescription = HttpService:JSONEncode({
HatAccessory = HumanoidDescription.HatAccessory,
-- ...
-- ...
-- ...
})
If you literally only need to save their body colors for when they spawn you can just make a key in a datastore and make a simple if-elseif branch to handle recoloring their current HumanoidDescription
local Color = ColorStore:GetAsync(Player.UserId) -- could simply be stored as a 3 element array { 255, 0, 0 }
local ColorObject = Color3.new(table.unpack(Color))
HumanoidDescription.HeadColor = ColorObject
-- ...
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I get how it works but Im clueless on how to set it up and save it.
local ColorStore = game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("PlayerColor")
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local HumanoidDescription = Player.Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid"):IsA("HumanoidDescription")
local Color = ColorStore:GetAsync(Player.UserId)
local ColorObject = Color3.new(table.unpack(Color))
HumanoidDescription.HeadColor = ColorObject
-- ...