How do I save GUIs between games?

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#1

I’m making a Tower Defense game. I need to save the GUI to the map you teleport to so you can place the towers you equipped.

#2

Saving a GUI is like serializing… there’s a tutorial that introduces this in Roblox.

#3

I believe you’d use MessagingService.

#4

What I’m trying to say is, if you ever played Tower Defense Simulator, you would have noticed the GUI for the towers you equipped saves into the main game.

#5

I’ve always just used datastore service to accomplish this. As long as both places are under the same game, the data saved should be shared between them

#6

They are under the same place. But how do I make a Datastore for a Gui?

#7

You can’t save Instances in DataStores, HOWEVER

You can implement checks (BoolValues) to detect what Towers the Player has, then clone, enable, & parent the GUI’s to the Player that way

Possibly something like this:

--By now we should already have BoolValues both implemented from the lobby to the game place
local DataStore = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local DataName = DataStore:GetDataStore("TowerCheck")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
    local PlayerGui = Player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")

    local Towers = Instance.new("Folder")
    Towers.Name = "Towers"
    Towers.Parent = Player

    local ScoutCheck = Instance.new("BoolValue")
    ScoutCheck.Name "ScoutCheck"
    ScoutCheck.Parent = Towers

    local Data

    local success, whoops = pcall(function()
        Data = DataName:GetAsync(Player.UserId)
    end)
    
    if success and Data then
        ScoutCheck.Value = Data.Scout
    end

    if ScoutCheck.Value == true then
        local ScoutGui = game.ReplicatedStorage.ScoutGui:Clone()
        ScoutGui.Parent = PlayerGui.MainGui.TowersFrame
    end
end)
#8 
local DataStore = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local DataName = DataStore:GetDataStore("TowerCheck")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
    local PlayerGui = Player:WaitForChild("PlayerGui")

    local Towers = Instance.new("Folder")
    Towers.Name = "Towers"
    Towers.Parent = Player

    local ScoutCheck = Instance.new("BoolValue")
    ScoutCheck.Name "ScoutCheck"
    ScoutCheck.Parent = Towers

    local Data

    local success, whoops = pcall(function()
        Data = DataName:GetAsync(Player.UserId)
    end)
    
    if success and Data then
        ScoutCheck.Value = Data.Scout
    end

    if ScoutCheck.Value == true then
        local ScoutGui = game.ReplicatedStorage.ScoutGui:Clone()
        ScoutGui.Parent = PlayerGui.MainGui.TowersFrame
    end
end)

Where should I put the script? Also what game in?

#9

I personally use datastore2 since its a module that makes writing datastore easier for me. I would check it out, but it’s not for everyone.

But I agree with jackscarlett, you can’t save the actual gui objects, you would have to save information about the gui such as “setting 1 enabled” using int or bool values

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#10

I only gave a brief example, I can’t spoonfeed entire scripts for you

Your main game handler scripts should go in ServerScriptService, I’d also recommend debugging it with print() statements to know if the data loads or not

  • Also make sure to enable API Services

Scripts in ServerScriptService can be used to main server stuff such as DataStores, Gamepass/Badge Checks, Detection Changes & so on