How to save folders?

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#1

Hello. Ive currently been trying to come up with a way to make a creature capturing game, like pokemon. However I cant understand how id go about saving the player data. The creatures would all have different stats, like for example: HP = X, ISPURPLE = Y, DEFENSE = Z. Id tought of storing them in Folders, however I do not know how I could go about saving this information. Any help is appreciated!

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#2

That’s generally a bad way of going about it. There isnt really a way to directly “save” instances (such as folders) either. What you’d do is save a table of information, and put tables with creatures full of their stats in that table.

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#3

By doing it that way, how would i access the player’s pokemon in other scripts?

#4

You can loop through tables using

local table = {}
for i, v in pairs(table) do

end

As for your saving system, youll want to save each “pokemons” stats into a table within a table.
example code:

local PokemonData = {}
for i, v in pairs(Player.Party:GetChildren()) do
local NewPokemon = {} -- create a new table for each pokemon
NewPokemon.PokemonName = v.Name -- Create a new value in the table that is the pokemons name (for loading pokemon)
for i, c in pairs(v:GetChildren()) do -- Loop through the pokemons stats: ATK, DEF etc.
NewPokemon[c.Name] = c.Value -- this will create a value in the table like: {["ATK"] = 20}
end
table.insert(PokemonData, NewPokemon) -- Add the new pokemon to the table were going to save
end

For loading the pokemon, you can just create a folder, and then load the data.
example code:

local PokemonFolder = instance.new("Folder", Player)
PokemonFolder.Name = "Party"
for i, v in pairs(PlayerPokemonData) do
local NewPokemon = instance.new("Folder", PokemonFolder)
NewPokemon.Name = v.PokemonName

-- repeat this for each stat
local atk = instance.new("NumberValue", NewPokemon)
atk.Name = "ATK"
atk.Value = v.ATK
end

That way, you can access the players pokemon through other scripts, and keep your game generally the same.

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#5

Thank you! I think I understand, will try this later!

#6

in this video I show how to save folders of values it might also help

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#7 
function saveprogress(location)

local load = {}

for i,v in pairs(location:GetChildren()) do
table.insert(load,v:Clone())
end

return load;

end

function loadprogress(load,location)

for i,v in pairs(load) do
v.Parent = location
end

end

example

local dss = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local data = dss:GetDataStore("example")

function saveprogress(location)

local load = {}

for i,v in pairs(location:GetChildren()) do
table.insert(load,v:Clone())
end

return load;

end

function loadprogress(load,location)

for i,v in pairs(load) do
v.Parent = location
end

end

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(p)
local motherfolder = Instance.New("Folder",p)
motherfolder.Name = "party"

local key = "key-"..p.UserId

local save = data:GetAsync(key)

if (save == nil) then
local poke = Instance.New("Folder",motherfolder)
local statExample = Instance.New("StringValue",poke)
poke.Name = "pokeplaceholder"
statExample.Name = "name"

data:SetAsync(key,saveprogress(motherfolder))
else
loadprogress(save,motherfolder)
end
end)

game.Player.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(p)
local key, motherfolder = "key-".. p.UserId ,p:WaitForChild("party")
data:SetAsync(key,saveprogress(motherfolder))
end)