Saving an RGB Color to a DataStore

bvetterdays · January 21, 2022, 2:16pm

I’m trying to save an RGB color to a datastore to allow players in my game to customize the color of their overhead nametag. I’ve found multiple articles on this and tried their solutions but haven’t seemed to get them to work. How my script should work is it gets the RGB Color value of a GUI frame which is the color the player selected and then fires it to the server through a RemoteEvent to save it to the datastore.

Anyone know how to do this? I’m really struggling and would appreciate any help.

conra_virusman · January 21, 2022, 2:20pm

Get the rgb color and save it in a tsble

local Color = {R = color.R, G = color.G, B = color.B}

Havent tested

bvetterdays · January 21, 2022, 2:22pm

Would I do this from the LocalScript or Script? When I try to fire the BackgroundColor3 property in the parameters through the RemoteEvent to the server, it says ‘Attempt to index nil with R’

conra_virusman · January 21, 2022, 2:22pm

Yeah, havent tested it. But you’d do something similar to it. Also you do it on the server script or on the client, just send it to the data store

conra_virusman · January 21, 2022, 2:25pm

Actually, according to the wiki it should work, try checking if the background color is nil

bvetterdays · January 21, 2022, 2:28pm

Error:

Server Script:

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local DataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("NameColor")

local function saveData(Player, Data)
	local DataToSave = Data
	local success, err = pcall(function()
		DataStore:SetAsync(Player.UserId, DataToSave)
	end)

	if success then
		print("Data has been saved!")
		print(DataToSave)
	else
		print("Data hasn't been saved!")
		warn(err)		
	end
end

game.ReplicatedStorage.SaveNameColor.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(Player, NameColor)
	saveData(Player, NameColor)
end)

Local Script:

NameTagColor:WaitForChild("Buy"):WaitForChild("Button").MouseButton1Click:Connect(function()

local NameColor = ColorDisplay

local DataTable = {R = ColorDisplay.BackgroundColor3.R, G = ColorDisplay.BackgroundColor3.G, B = ColorDisplay.BackgroundColor3.B}

game.ReplicatedStorage.SaveNameColor:FireServer(Player, DataTable)

end)

Edit: Wait, I think I’m doing something wrong with the parameters

conra_virusman · January 21, 2022, 2:30pm

Print the data table in both the server script and local script. Tell me the results

Shiroudan · January 21, 2022, 2:31pm

You have to save it as a table!

bvetterdays · January 21, 2022, 2:31pm

Turns out I was doing the parameters wrong, it saves and prints something but it’s really weird and not what I want…

bvetterdays · January 21, 2022, 2:32pm

Is local DataTable = {R = ColorDisplay.BackgroundColor3.R, G = ColorDisplay.BackgroundColor3.G, B = ColorDisplay.BackgroundColor3.B} a table, or am I dumb…?

CommanderRanking · January 21, 2022, 2:32pm

You can just put the color into a Color3Value, then save the Color3Value. When you need it, take the value from the DataStore, and put it in the Color3Value!

conra_virusman · January 21, 2022, 2:33pm

Wait go to the 3 dots on the output and turn off logging, it should fix it and then print again

bvetterdays · January 21, 2022, 2:43pm

How would I do this? charsssss

Shiroudan · January 21, 2022, 2:43pm

Hmm, I would skip the {R =, G =, B =}, it creates unnecessary data, just instead remember Table[1] is R, Table[2] is G, and Table[3] is B. That is a table though

conra_virusman · January 21, 2022, 2:43pm

Also the print weird thing is normal.

conra_virusman · January 21, 2022, 2:43pm

Isn’t that what my code already did?

bvetterdays · January 21, 2022, 2:43pm

Still printing the same thing… weird

conra_virusman · January 21, 2022, 2:44pm

Its normal, the code saved fine.

bvetterdays · January 21, 2022, 2:44pm

OH, how would I retrieve it when the player joins? Thanks

CoderHusk · January 21, 2022, 2:45pm

just do table[1], table[2], table[3]. Another way is just saving the hexadecimal representation of the color3 as a string