Saving accessories?

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#1

So what I want is for when the player equips a item lets say a hat

When they leave and rejoin it is still on there head

I have the equip system

But I dont know where to start for the saving system, I have checked so many places without an answer

Anyone know where to start?

#2

You could use ProfileService for the data system for your game.

What you’ll need to do is essentially:
1- when a player equips a hat , you’ll need to add the hat’s name into the Data [make sure u know how to call and use ProfileService, there’re great tutorials out there].

2- make sure there’s an organized folder in ServerStorage where you have the actual accessories
[will be useful for the loading the equipped hats,etc].

3- when the player rejoins, you’ll need to get the saved hats from that folder in serverstorage and then put those hats on the player.

#3

Profile service is definitely the best option, but if you don’t want have to learn how to use it, then you can just save a table in your SetAsync. Something like this:

local savedAccessories = {} -- you would just add to this table when a player equips/unequips an item

game:GetService("Players").PlayerRemoving:Connect(function()
    game:GetService("DataStoreService"):GetDataStore("ds name"):SetAsync(savedAccessories)
end)
#4

this is my copy paste code

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

local AccessoriesData = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("Accessories")
local SavingData = 0

local function AddAccessory(Player, AccessoryName)
	-- adds accessory
end

local function GetPlayerAccessories(Player)
	--[[
	the name of the accessory, not the instance
	{
		"CatAccessory",
		"Blue glasses",
		"BlackAccessory"
	}
	
	]]
end

local function PlayerAdded(Player)
	local PlayerAccessories = AccessoriesData:GetAsync(
		`{Player.UserId}`
	) or {}
	
	for i, Accessory in PlayerAccessories do
		AddAccessory(Player, Accessory)
	end
end

for i, Player in Players:GetPlayers() do
	PlayerAdded(Player)
end
Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(PlayerAdded)

Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(Player)
	local Accessories = GetPlayerAccessories(Player)
	SavingData += 1
	
	AccessoriesData:SetAsync(
		`{Player.UserId}`,
		Accessories
	)
	
	SavingData -= 1
end)

game:BindToClose(function()
	if SavingData > 0 then
		repeat task.wait()
		until SavingData == 0
	end
end)
#5

Thanks for all the replys! I will look into them :smiley: