How to save mesh textureId when player leaves game

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#1

Hello i am making an FPS game and i want to sell weapon skins. I made a part in game that a player can click to change the mesh textureId of his weapon, the problem is that i need the new mesh textureId to save when the player leaves the game.

Here is the entire script...

script.Parent.MouseClick:connect(function(player)
local gun = player.Backpack:FindFirstChild(“Pistol”)

if player == nil then return end
				
local handle = gun:FindFirstChild("Handle")
local mesh = handle.Mesh
			
mesh.TextureId = "rbxassetid://3910126842" -- Now i need this to be saved to datastore or something. Im not sure what to do next.

end)

#2

The next thing you would need to do is some simple datastore saving using:

Store:SetAysnc()

Store:GetAysnc()

Have you looked into datastores already?

And checking when a player leaves:

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/event/Players/PlayerRemoving

More advanced version:

Another resource:

#3

Yes but i don’t know enough about scripting to understand how to use datastore for this kind of stuff. I only used it for saving player kills and saving tools in a players backpack. I had to use youtube tutorials to do that.

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#4

Alright, i’ll do it in steps(note the code i am providing is not tested and is to give you an idea, alternatively it would be better to look at some more advanced techniques/datstores (above) at some point )

Firstly we need see when a player leaves the game to save their data(there is no need to save data too often)

----server script in server script service

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local DataStoreService = Game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local TextureIds = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("TextureIds ")-----Fetches a The DataStore we already made


players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)---Fires when a player leaves

TextureIds:SetAysnc(plr,  insert the texture id for the player here  )-----the first argument is our player(scope) and the second argument is the string we are saving (texture id)

end)

Now we need to Get the player’s data when they join:

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local DataStoreService = Game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local TextureIds = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("TextureIds ")-----Creates or fetches a datastore 


players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)---Fires when a player Joins

TextureId =  TextureIds:GetAysnc(plr)---The only argument we need is the player 

end)

Now Implementing all of the code above into your code would look something like this:

---local script
script.Parent.MouseClick:connect(function(player)
local gun = player.Backpack:FindFirstChild(“Pistol”)



if player == nil then return end
				
local handle = gun:FindFirstChild("Handle")
local mesh = handle.Mesh
			
mesh.TextureId = "rbxassetid://3910126842" -- Now i need this to be saved to datastore or something. Im not sure what to do next.


end)
---Server Script

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local DataStoreService = Game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local TextureIds = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("TextureIds ")-----Creates or fetches a datastore 


players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)---Fires when a player leaves

local gun = plr.Backpack:FindFirstChild(“Pistol”)
local handle = gun:FindFirstChild("Handle")
local mesh = handle.Mesh

mesh.TextureId =  TextureIds:GetAysnc(plr)---The only argument we need is the player, this sets the mesh.TextureId to the saved value 

end)


players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(plr)---Fires when a player leaves 

local gun = plr.Backpack:FindFirstChild(“Pistol”)
local handle = gun:FindFirstChild("Handle")
local mesh = handle.Mesh

 TextureIds:SetAysnc(plr, mesh.TextureId ) ---Saving the data!

end)

Hopefully that was somewhat helpful!
if you have any questions let me know :grinning:
(Also i strongly advise you take a look a those resources they’re very helpful)

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