How to use .Created to remove accessories from an avatar that were made before a certain year?

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#1

Pretty simple question, how do I use .Created in a script to remove accessories from players joining that were created before a certain year? I know I’m going to need to use ApplyDescription to humanoids and all, but I’m just not sure how to put the script into fruition.

#2

You could use the character’s HumanoidDescription to find the IDs for every accessory, check their creation, delete the ones you don’t want and apply it again.

The script would be something like this:

local MinYear = 2020
local Char -- This will be the player's character

local MarketplaceService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")

-- Get all the accessories we need
local Description = Char.Humanoid:GetAppliedDescription()
local Accessories = Description:GetAccessories(true)
local ToRemove = {} -- Here we will keep accessories we don't want
-- Loop through accessories
for i, accessory in Accessories do
	if tonumber(string.split(MarketplaceService:GetProductInfo(accessory.AssetId).Created,"-")[1]) < MinYear then
		table.insert(ToRemove,accessory)
	end
end

-- Remove all unwanted accessories
for _, accessory in ToRemove do
	-- This substitues the ID of the accessory in the list with an empty string, effectively deleting it
	local AccessoryType = string.sub(tostring(accessory.AccessoryType),20,-1)
	Description[AccessoryType.."Accessory"] = string.gsub(Description[AccessoryType.."Accessory"],tostring(accessory.AssetId),"")
end

Char.Humanoid:ApplyDescription(Description)

Hope this helps!

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#3

I’m not exactly sure what’s going on in this script, but I don’t think this even is able to function. I don’t see anywhere that the script even uses MarketplaceService to use the asset ID to find the creation date of the asset. (My fault @lamonLikeTinyGamer, I somehow completely skipped over:

if tonumber(string.split(MarketplaceService:GetProductInfo(accessory.AssetId).Created,"-")[1])

apologies!)

I’ve been trying to figure this problem out, and this is what I have gotten so far as a StarterPlayerScript:

local MS = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = Players.LocalPlayer -- Get the local player

-- Function to get character appearance information
local function getAppearanceInfo()
	local userId = player.UserId -- Get the UserId of the local player
	local success, info = pcall(function() 
		return game.Players:GetCharacterAppearanceInfoAsync(userId)
	end)

	if success then
		for _, asset in ipairs(info['assets']) do
			local AssetId = asset.id
			print(AssetId) -- Printed Asset IDs will appear in the output window
		end
	else
		warn("Failed to get character appearance info: " .. tostring(info))
	end
end

-- Call the function when the player joins
getAppearanceInfo()

This gets the asset IDs of every asset currently on the player and pastes the IDs into output. I’m just trying to figure out how to get the creation date right now from the IDs gathered by this script.

I don’t really know anything about dictionaries or tables so maybe I’m just missing something about your script.

#4

I don’t see anywhere that the script even uses MarketplaceService

	if tonumber(string.split(MarketplaceService:GetProductInfo(accessory.AssetId).Created,"-")[1]) < MinYear then

Their script works fine, too. At least, it started like so.
When I test it, it seems to error because it can’t find a ShoulderAccessory property. The property in a HumanoidDescription that has them is actually, for whatever reason ShouldersAccessory, so we need to add a check that adds the missing S.

Also, they forgot to call ApplyDescription to actually apply these changes:
Character.Humanoid:ApplyDescription(Description)

With these in mind, here’s a cleaner version that removes old enough accessories every time the player spawns:

local MinYear = 2024 -- Change this

local MarketplaceService = game:GetService("MarketplaceService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	
	-- This fires every time a player joins
	
	Player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(Character)
		
		-- And this fires every time the player's avatar starts loading.
		-- Now that we have their character, begin removing
		-- all accessories where their creation year < MinYear
		
		local Description = Character.Humanoid:GetAppliedDescription() -- HumanoidDescription
		local Accessories = Description:GetAccessories(true) -- Get the accessories from the description

		for i, Accessory in Accessories do
			
			-- Get the information of the accessory to find its creation date and look for the year
			
			if tonumber(string.split(MarketplaceService:GetProductInfo(Accessory.AssetId).Created, "-")[1]) < MinYear then
				
				-- Get the type of accessory so we can replace it in the description
				
				local AccessoryType = string.sub(tostring(Accessory.AccessoryType), 20, -1) -- More string stuff...
				AccessoryType = AccessoryType .. (AccessoryType == "Shoulder" and "s" or "") -- Append "s" if it goes on the shoulders
				Description[AccessoryType .. "Accessory"] = string.gsub(Description[AccessoryType .. "Accessory"], tostring(Accessory.AssetId), "") -- Remove
				
			end
			
		end
		
		Character.Humanoid:ApplyDescription(Description) -- Apply the changes!
		
	end)
	
end)

This can take a while because GetProductInfo is a yielding function (it freezes the thread until done), you’ll have to deal with that yourself. I tested this one and it works perfectly on my avatar.

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