How to save Color3 value in Datastore

[slendarcoolfan (Daniel)]

local Players = game:GetService("Players") -- player.Parent
local Datastore = game:GetService("DataStoreService")

Datastore = Datastore:GetDataStore("colors")

-- other code

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	local ok, eror = pcall(function()
		Datastore:SetAsync((Color.R,Color.B,Color.G),player.info.color.Value)
	end)
	if not ok then
		print(eror) -- line that errors
	end
end)

Try this code

[slendarcoolfan (Daniel)]

if you dont understand, i just made it so its

Datastore:SetAsync((Color.R,Color.B,Color.G),player.info.color.Value)

[NoxhazeI (Russian_man)]

This will not at all work. Because your using the wrong parenthesis. Its suppose to be curly.

[SomeFedoraGuy (Him)]

ok

i tested and it works thanks

ofcourse i got something called synapse error but i added {}

but how do i get it?

[slendarcoolfan (Daniel)]

What do you mean by how do i get it?

[NoxhazeI (Russian_man)]

local Players = game:GetService("Players") -- player.Parent
local Datastore = game:GetService("DataStoreService")

Datastore = Datastore:GetDataStore("colors")

local function Serialize(color)
	local r,g,b = color.R,color.G,color.B
	return r..","..g..","..b
end

local function Deserialize(colorstring)
	local r,g,b = colorstring:split(",")[1],colorstring:split(",")[2],colorstring:split(",")[3]
	return Color3.new(tonumber(r),tonumber(g),tonumber(b))
end

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	local ok, eror = pcall(function()
		Datastore:SetAsync(pleyer.Name,Serialize(player.info.color.Value))
	end)
	if not ok then
		print(eror) -- line that errors
	end
end)

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local ok, eror = pcall(function()
		return Datastore:GetAsync(pleyer.Name)
	end)
	if ok then
		print(Deserialize(eror))
	end
end)

I wrote it for you I suppose.

[SomeFedoraGuy (Him)]

i mean how do i GetAsync on it

how do i know what the color is

[SomeFedoraGuy (Him)]

@NoxhazeI

	local r,g,b = colorstring:split(",")[1],colorstring:split(",")[2],colorstring:split(",")[3]

i get attempt to index nil with split or something

[vxcaie]

I have thought that the string of the Value may not be validated by ROBLOX standard.

[NoxhazeI (Russian_man)]

Basically means your not giving it the argument of colorstring.

[SomeFedoraGuy (Him)]

Does the code in my reply not work, @SomeFedoraGuy? Also,

@NoxhazeI

if ok then
		print(Deserialize(eror))
	end

In this case “eror” would be nil since “ok” is true.

@slendarcoolfan

Datastore:SetAsync((Color.R,Color.B,Color.G),player.info.color.Value)

That would be the key, you would want to use the Player’s ID when saving it.

[SomeFedoraGuy (Him)]

but i am, look:

[NoxhazeI (Russian_man)]

Errr, I can’t really test anything because A: I am busy and B: I am lazy. But:

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local ok, eror = pcall(function()
		return Datastore:GetAsync(player.Name)
	end)
	if ok then
		print(Deserialize(eror))
	end
end)

[neweve2323 (block)]

You should check if eror is nil though:

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local ok, eror = pcall(function()
		return Datastore:GetAsync(player.Name)
	end)
	if ok and eror then
		print(Deserialize(eror))
	end
end)

[weakmetatable (metatable)]

You’re looking for the term ‘Serialization’.

Here’s the most efficient way of converting a Color3 data type to table format:

local function serializeColor(color: Color3)
	local r, g, b = color.R, color.G, color.B
	r, g, b = math.floor(r * 255), math.floor(g * 255), math.floor(b * 255)
	
	return {r, g, b}
end

local function deserializeColor(serialzedColor: any)
	local r, g, b = serialzedColor[1], serialzedColor[2], serialzedColor[3]
	
	return Color3.fromRGB(r, g, b)
end

local serialized = serializeColor(COLOR)
local deserialized = deserializeColor(serialized)

[SomeFedoraGuy (Him)]

@weakmetatable

local function serializeColor(color: Color3)
	local r, g, b = color.R, color.G, color.B
	r, g, b = math.floor(r * 255), math.floor(g * 255), math.floor(b * 255)
	
	return r, g, b
end

cant i use Color3.fromrgb like that somefedoraguy said?
look:

@SomeFedoraGuy

-- See, when the encoder saves the data, it's not saved as .fromRGB format. You need .new

[slendarcoolfan (Daniel)]

Here’s ur finished code!

local Players = game:GetService("Players") -- player.Parent
local Datastore = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
Datastore = Datastore:GetDataStore("colors")

-- other code

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(Player)
	local Color = Color3.new(1,1,1)
	local ok, eror = pcall(function()
		Datastore:SetAsync(Player.UserId,Color.R.."/"..Color.G.."/"..Color.B)
	end)
	if not ok then
		print(eror) -- line that errors
	end
end)
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	local Return = Datastore:GetAsync(Player.UserId)
	if type(Return) == "string" then
		local ColorReturned = {}
		for i,v in pairs(string.split(Return,"/")) do
			if i == 1 then
				ColorReturned["R"] = v
			end
			if i == 2 then
				ColorReturned["G"] = v
			end
			if i == 3 then
				ColorReturned["B"] = v
			end
		end
		local ColorReturnedComplete = Color3.new(ColorReturned["R"],ColorReturned["G"],ColorReturned["B"])
	else
		print("No Saves")
	end
end)

Edit: I Fixed a typo

[NoxhazeI (Russian_man)]

I was going to do that but had to pause because of irl work.

[NoxhazeI (Russian_man)]

What kind of human are you… please stay a mile away from me, from now on. As:

local Players = game:GetService("Players") -- player.Parent
local Datastore = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
Datastore = Datastore:GetDataStore("colors")

-- other code

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(Player)
	local Color = Color3.new(1,1,1)
	local ok, eror = pcall(function()
		Datastore:SetAsync(Player.UserId,Color.R.."/"..Color.G.."/"..Color.B)
	end)
	if not ok then
		print(eror) -- line that errors
	end
end)
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	local Return = Datastore:GetAsync(Player.UserId)
	if type(Return) == "string" then
		local ColorReturned = string.split(Return,"/")
-- could be like this ngl
	else
		print("No Saves")
	end
end)

[slendarcoolfan (Daniel)]

Why do you insult me when i litterary tried to help