How to save Color3Value

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#1

Hi, I started making a game and ran into a problem in the first hour of work)
I don’t know how to save color3
I’ve already tried a lot of things, but all in vain, since there is not much knowledge

Leaderstats and DataStore

local DS = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local DSS = DS:GetDataStore("GameTest1")


game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local FKatas = Instance.new("Folder", plr)
	FKatas.Name = "MainFolder" 
	
	local Kata = Instance.new("IntValue",FKatas)
	Kata.Name = "Kata"
	Kata.Value = "nil"
	
	local KatCSave = Instance.new("StringValue", FKatas)
	KatCSave.Name = "KatanaColorSave"
	KatCSave.Value = "255,255,55"
	
	local KatanaC = Instance.new("Color3Value",FKatas)
	KatanaC.Name = "KatanaColor"
	KatanaC.Value = Color3.new(255,255,255)
	
	local KatanaF = Instance.new("Folder",plr)
	KatanaF.Name = "KatanaFolder"
	
	local color = KatanaC.Value
	local katana = KatanaF.Tool.BladeKata
	
	local data
	local succe,er = pcall(function()
		data = DSS:GetAsync(plr.UserId)
	end)
	
	if succe then
		Kata.Value = data
		color.R = data
		color.G = data
		color.B = data
		
	else
		warn(er)
	end
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
	local succ, err = pcall(function()
		local data = DSS:SetAsync(plr.UserId, plr.MainFolder.Kata.Value, plr.MainFolder.KatanaColor.Value.R,plr.MainFolder.KatanaColor.Value.G,plr.MainFolder.KatanaColor.Value.B)
		
	end)
		if err then
			warn(err)
end

	game:BindToClose(function()
		for i,plr in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
			
		end
	end)
end)
Is it possible to save BackgroundColor3 values with DataStore?
#2

I think this may help.

Yea just saw the script, you need to make the Save Value color3 as well i think

#3

And use DataStores to save the Values and reload

#4

Save Value Color3 already tried but doesn’t work

#5

Try making this a Color3Value btw

#6

Don’t remember where i got these functions from, but they work.


function Hex2Color(hex)
    local r,g,b = string.match(hex,"(..)(..)(..)")
    return Color3.fromRGB(tonumber(r,16),tonumber(g,16),tonumber(b,16))
end

function Color2Hex(color)
    local h,e,x = math.floor(color.r*255+.5),math.floor(color.g*255+.5),math.floor(color.b*255+.5)
    return string.format("%02x%02x%02x",h,e,x)
end

To save, put the color value into the Color2Hex function, and to turn it back into a Color3, just use the Hex2Color function.

Example:

local color3 = Color3.fromRGB(255,90,90) --Red, Color3, Cannot save.
local hex = Color2Hex(color3) --Red, hexadecimal, you can save this in datastore, but can't be used in instances

-- To turn it back into a color 3 just do the following:
local newColor = Hex2Color(hex)
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#7

You can use string:split(",") and create a table with the 3 values that then you can save

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#8

I tried as you said, but it started giving the error “Unable to cast value to Object”

#9

Make sure you’re passing the value of Color3Value, else it won’t work.

KatanaColor.Value
#10

I’ve never had to deal with Color3)) I can’t even what is what, could you please explain what is what

	if succe then
		Kata.Value = data
		--KatanaC.Value[hex] = data
		KatanaC.Value = data
		
	else
		warn(er)
	end
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
	local succ, err = pcall(function()
		local data = DSS:SetAsync(plr.UserId, plr.MainFolder.Kata.Value, plr.MainFolder.KatanaColor.Value)
		
	end)
		if err then
			warn(err)
end

	game:BindToClose(function()
		for i,plr in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
			
		end
	end)
end)
#11

Fixed up the errors in your code, this should work.

Removed the ‘KatanaColorSave’ value cause there’s no point in using it.

local DS = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local DSS = DS:GetDataStore("GameTest1")

function hex2Color(hex)
    local r,g,b = string.match(hex,"(..)(..)(..)")
    return Color3.fromRGB(tonumber(r,16),tonumber(g,16),tonumber(b,16))
end

function color2Hex(color)
    local h,e,x = math.floor(color.r*255+.5),math.floor(color.g*255+.5),math.floor(color.b*255+.5)
    return string.format("%02x%02x%02x",h,e,x)
end

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
    local FKatas = Instance.new("Folder", plr)
    FKatas.Name = "MainFolder" 

    local Kata = Instance.new("IntValue",FKatas)
    Kata.Name = "Kata"
    Kata.Value = 0

    local KatanaC = Instance.new("Color3Value",FKatas)
    KatanaC.Name = "KatanaColor"
    KatanaC.Value = Color3.new(255,255,255)

    local KatanaF = Instance.new("Folder",plr)
    KatanaF.Name = "KatanaFolder"

    local data
    local succe,er = pcall(function()
        data = DSS:GetAsync(plr.UserId)
    end)

    if succe and data then
        Kata.Value = data.Kata
        KatanaC.Value = hex2Color(data.Color)
    else
        warn(er or "No data?")
    end
end)

local function save(plr)
    local succ, err = pcall(function()
        local data = {
            Kata = plr.MainFolder.Kata.Value;
            Color = color2Hex(plr.MainFolder.KatanaColor.Value);
        }
        
        DSS:SetAsync(plr.UserId, data)
    end)
    
    if err then
        warn(err)
    end
end

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)
    save(plr)
end)

game:BindToClose(function()
    for i,plr in pairs(game.Players:GetChildren()) do
        save(plr)
    end
end)
#12

Thank you very much, helped a lot, I read the color preservation code and figured it out right away