Saving models in a folder in the local player?

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1

Hi, is it possible to use the Datastore to save the models that are in a folder attached to the local player? If so, how?

2

You cannot directly save models in a datastore but you can do something like this:

local dataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local modelsThing = dataStoreService:GetDataStore("Models")
local modelsFolder = game:GetService("ServerStorage"):WaitForChild("ModelsFolder")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	local models = modelsThing:GetAsync(player.UserId)
	
	if models ~= nil then
		for _,v in pairs(modelsFolder:GetChildren()) do
			if string.find(models, v.Name) then
				print("here is a matching model. lets do something with it!")
			end
		end
	end
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	-- lets just get all of the models in their backpack
	local checking = player.Backpack
	local foundModels = modelsThing:GetAsync(player.UserId) or ""
	
	for _,v in pairs(checking:GetChildren) do
		if v:IsA("Model") then
			foundModels = foundModels.."$"..v.Name.."$"
			-- seperate the names by $ so they don't get all mixed up!
		end
	end
	
	modelsThing:SetAsync(player.UserId, foundModels)
end)

You can always create a custom folder in the player a loop through that. This works by just matching the names to real models so you’d have to have another folder that had all the models in it that it can match.

Other than this you could just save a huge string with code in it on how to reconstruct the models with all of the parts and stuff in it.

3

I have this but like… I don’t know what to do with models…?

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(player)
	local data = {}
	
	data.equppedTrap = player.equippedTrap.Value
	data.equippedSkin = player.equippedSkin.Value
	
	data.Skins = {}
	data.Traps = {}
	
	for i, v in pairs(player.SkinInventory:GetChildren()) do
		table.insert(data.Skins, v.Name)
		print(v.Name)
	end
		
	for i, v in pairs(player.TrapInventory:GetChildren()) do
		table.insert(data.Traps, v.Name)
		print(v.Name)
	end
	
	local sucess, errorMsg = pcall(function()
		DataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId, data)
	end)
	
	if sucess then
		print("Successfully saved")
	end
	
end)
4

Do you have the actual datastore or the part conversion?

5

I have a datastore:

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	
	local SkinInventory = Instance.new("Folder")
	SkinInventory.Name = "SkinInventory"
	SkinInventory.Parent = player
	

	local equippedSkin = Instance.new("StringValue")
	equippedSkin.Name = "equippedSkin"
	equippedSkin.Parent = player

	local inMenu = Instance.new("BoolValue")
	inMenu.Name = "inMenu"
	inMenu.Parent = player
	
	local data 

	local success, errorMsg = pcall(function()
		data = DataStore:GetAsync(player.UserId)
	end)
	
	if data ~= nil then
		if data.equippedTrap then
			equippedTrap.Value = data.equippedTrap
		end
		
		if data.equippedSkin then
			equippedSkin.Value = data.equippedSkin
		end
		
		if data.Skins then
			for i, v in pairs(data.Skins) do
				local val = Instance.new("StringValue")
				val.Name = v
				val.Parent = SkinInventory
			end
		end

	end

	game.ReplicatedStorage.SendData:FireClient(player, data)
	
	end)
end)
6

So what exactly does this do? Does it like store the name of the part or… ?

7

Currently, it takes the skin you have purchased and create a stringValue of the skin’s name.

8

Right but I think you should replace it because you’re indexing values in the datastore that don’t seem to exist.

9

Replace what? the stringvalues?

10

The entire script because the way you refer to he datastore.equippedSkin would be in a table which you cannot store in a datastore.

11

The equipped skin is something differe and I don’t want to touch that. The skin’s the player has are all stored in a a folder.