Problem with saving Material to Datastore and getting it

[kagerwind]

I want to make a map saving system that uses datastore and inherits to new servers, I made it but I got stuck when it came to Material saving, I tried to use string.sub() to get the part after “Enum.Material” but it still doesn’t work for some reason, please help me.

The part of the script I save the part’s material:

["Material"] = string.sub(tostring(v.Material),15);

The part of the script I load part’s material:

	if v.Material then 
		newpart.Material = Enum.Material[v.Material]
	end

[LionelLeoBuildz (LionelLeoPlayz)]

I think you should check out this post.

How to save parts, and the idea of Serialization

This article is the answer to the famous question “How to save objects using Datastore” and many other ways to word it. If you played with Datastore for enough time, I think you already know that Instances such as parts and models ect. can’t be simply saved using :SetAsync(), which makes it hard to save objects. Most people, with games that are supposed to have slots and stuff on them that you want to save, get stuck when doing this, although, I think finding a way to go over this is quite eas…

[kagerwind]

This answered my question, thank you.