How to save points even when leave

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#13

From the source itself:
Numeric for: Programming in Lua : 4.3.4
Generic for: Programming in Lua : 4.3.5

#14

You should use the video I posted to understand better. It accomplishes exactly what you are asking. Don’t just watch it, follow along in your code with it so you can learn better. It’s a lot easier to understand something when you can troubleshoot and think over it.

#15

Like it was long video, long script.

#16

You would use DatastoreService like so:

local DSS = game:GetService("DatastoreService") -- Gets service
local pointsDS = DSS:GetDataStore("points") --Creates data store using the name in parameters

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player) 
    local points = Instance.new("IntValue", player) --Instancing a value into the player, you could do this in a folder if you want it organized
    points.Value = pointsDS:GetAsync(plr.UserId) or 0--The value of the Instance will try to find the saved value in the DataStore if it doesn't then the value will be false
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
    local points = player.Points --Getting the value from our player

    local success, errorMsg = pcall(function() --If you don't know what pcalling is consider reading about it in Roblox DevHub
        pointsDS:SetAsync(plr.UserId)
    end)

    if errormessage then
       print("Error occured while saving data!")
    end
end)
#17

I don’t know if its a personal preference but i would save them to individual datastores instead of putting them in a table

#19

that script didn’t work at all.

#20

In Studio try BindToClose and activate the APIs

#21

Looks like this should be

pointsDS:SetAsync(plr.UserId, points.Value)

So the datastore is actually setting a key value pair

#22

whats that?
bind to close?
can you tell me what is it and where and how

#23

See this

#24

Make sure to use pcall as it is safer to use and helps prevent crashing. Many people tend to not use it, but it is recomended.

#25

it is hard for me to understand and use the scripts that are mentioned in an article in the developer hub. The thing that I want to save is the file “leaderstats” which inside any player that joins the game, and the values inside the file, “Points” and “XP”

#26 

game:BindToClose(function() 
	for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do 
       local points = player.Points
       local success, errorMsg = pcall(function()
       pointsDS:SetAsync(plr.UserId, points.Value
       end 
end)
#27

this script is full of errors just check the script before you tell me to use it, when pasted your script, too many red lines.
red lines = error

and there was 2 unknown globals

#28

Instead of saving data with the bind to close, just add a wait(5) so that the PlayerRemoving function can run, saving the player’s data. There’s not much use in saving within the BindToClose()

#29

Putting the data into a table reduces the amount of things to save to just one. So, it saves space, you can save data more often, and there is “less” data to remember.

#30

can you show me the results of the script?

#31

First: Please learn from this script, do NOT past the script.
Second: This script is an adjustment for Nifemiplayz script. It works for me.

#32

I think that if your having a hard time understanding those articles you might have to learn some of the basics of LuaU(the coding language Roblox uses)
I recommend if you wanna learn about saving player data follow this article which teaches about data stores in a way easier to understand and shows some code examples found on the developer wiki and also just following the basic coding tutorials found on the Roblox developer onboarding page

I hope this helps!!!

#33

He posted that assuming you would setup the data store and where the points are saved yourself, that script is just how to save it to a datastore not setup the data store I recommend following the article/pages I linked on my other post. I’ll quote it below

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