Introduction
Recently, I came across a problem where a client had to use a remote function to get datastore data from the server, but the server wasn’t done preparing the client’s datastore yet! This caused an error, so I had to create a workaround for this. I was thinking maybe this would be helpful for others, so I decided to make this tutorial.
Steps
Step 1: Create a module script and name it ReadyClientEnum. Add this script into ReplicatedStorage. In this script, delete everything and add this:
return {
ExampleKey = false,
}
Step 2: Make as many keys as you want. Name them to the things you want to prepare. Make sure you set them all as false, and don’t make more than one of the same key!
Example:
return {
Datastore = false,
Leaderstats = false,
GUI = false,
}
Step 3: Now create a remote event and name it ClientIsReady. Place it into ReplicatedStorage.
Step 4: In any client script, put this inside:
local ReadyClientEnum = game.ReplicatedStorage.ReadyClientEnum
local clientIsReadyRemote = game.ReplicatedStorage.ClientIsReady
local function isReady(): Boolean
local result = true
for key, keyIsReady in ReadyClientEnum do
if keyIsReady then
result = false
break
end
end
return result
end
clientIsReadyRemote.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(nowReadyWith: string)
if ReadyClientEnum[nowReadyWith] == nil then
error(nowReadyWith .. "is not a key in ReadyClientEnum")
end
ReadyClientEnum[nowReadyWith] = true
end)
repeat
task.wait()
until
isReady()
--Now do whatever you want to here for after everything is prepared!
Step 5: Now for your server side. Let’s say you want to prepare a client’s data store before the client does anything, this is what you would do in a server script:
local clientIsReadyRemote = game.ReplicatedStorage.ClientIsReady
local function onPlayerAdded(player)
-- Blah blah blah add data store
clientIsReadyRemote:FireClient(player, "____")
end
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded)
Now, this is the tricky part. The reason why I used ____ is because you need to make sure it’s the same exact name as your key in the ReadyClientEnum. For example, in the ReadyClientEnum, it would look something like this:
return {
Datastore = false,
}
So in the ____, MAKE SURE it’s the exact same name as your key. So the final result of the FireClient line would look like this:
clientIsReadyRemote:FireClient(player, "Datastore")
Reminders and More
• Again, you can do this as many times as you want. You can do a Datastore key, Leaderstats key, avatar loaded key, anything like that.
• You can use BindableEvents if you want to use client related stuff, like preparing a gui to make it fit the screen properly, or using PreloadAsync to make sure everything in the map is loaded.
Hope this helped!
If anyone has any questions, please reply in the replies. See you later!
