the argument it requires is a cframe value
you gave it the values with which you would of constructed said cframe
Yea I know that
what I’m saying is, didn’t you mean to do
newModel:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(position, position + (lookVector * 5)))
function loadPlace(player)
local playersBase = bases:FindFirstChild('EmptyBase')
playersBase.Name = player.Name
local modelData = modelDataStore:GetAsync(player.UserId)
local targetModel = modelData.ModelName
local information = modelData.Position
local newModel = items:FindFirstChild(targetModel):Clone()
local position = Vector3.new(information[1], information[2], information[3])
local lookVector = Vector3.new(information[4], information[5], information[6])
newModel:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(position, position + (lookVector * 5)))
newModel.Parent = bases:FindFirstChild(player.Name).ItemHolder
end
Okay so now it seems to be getting there. But it only loads in one model, instead of all of the models (not sure if it’s not saving all of the models, or not loading all of the models
EDIT
it is definitely saving all of the models. But I’m not sure how to get all of the models out of the data store to load in
are you sure it’s saving all the models? after checking the savePlace function you showed us above, each time it goes through a model it sets values for the same keys in modelData, namely modelData.ModelName and modelData.Position
what you should do is have an additional entry in modelData, for each model you iterate through, with their (unique) name and position, and when loading, to iterate through modelData for each entry of such a model
what I believe is happening is that each time it saves, it goes through all the models but each time one is saved, it replaces the previous one
function savePlace(player)
local modelData = {}
for _, model in pairs(bases:FindFirstChild(player.Name).ItemHolder:GetChildren()) do
local modelDataHolder = {}
local primaryPart = model.PrimaryPart
local position = primaryPart.Position
local direction = primaryPart.CFrame.lookVector
modelDataHolder.ModelName = model.Name
modelDataHolder.Position = {position.X, position.Y, position.Z, direction.X, direction.Y, direction.Z}
modelData.ModelName = modelDataHolder.ModelName
modelData.Position = modelDataHolder.Position
print(modelData.ModelName)
end
modelDataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId, modelData)
print('done')
end
This is what I have atm for it. It prints modelData.ModelName with a different name each time, so idk if that’s right or not It might not be but I thought since it’s a different name each time it’s gonna be saving them all
EDIT
Ok yea, i believe now it might not being saving everything properly, and only saving one model, but I don’t know how to make it save every model. I thought by adding another table, and adding all the values for each model to that table, then putting that table inside the modelData it’d work
since I suppose that modelData is supposed to keep information about individual models, what I’d do is this:
move the modelData variable inside the loop, and before the loop have a table named “models”
before moving to the next model to save, I’d add the modelData to the models
for that, you can go through two ways:
either manually set the index numerically like
models[#models+1] = modelData
or
table.insert(models, modelData) – not sure if it could work like models:insert(modelData)
that way you will have all the modelData’s in one table, sorted by numerical indexes
function savePlace(player)
local models = {}
for _, model in pairs(bases:FindFirstChild(player.Name).ItemHolder:GetChildren()) do
local modelData = {}
local primaryPart = model.PrimaryPart
local position = primaryPart.Position
local direction = primaryPart.CFrame.lookVector
modelData.ModelName = model.Name
modelData.Position = {position.X, position.Y, position.Z, direction.X, direction.Y, direction.Z}
models[#models + 1] = modelData
print(models.ModelName)
end
modelDataStore:SetAsync(player.UserId, models)
print('done')
end
Now the print models.ModelName just prints nil. Not sure if I did it as you said though was a little confused on what needed to be moved and what not
it does look like what I had in mind, so the data should be saved accordingly
instead, it’s what you tried to print that is different
the ‘models’ table itself won’t have a ModelName key
but, considering you have atleast one model, models[1].ModelName should
edit: ‘models’ itself is supposed to contain the modelData of each individual model, and I thought of using numerical indexes considering that a model might reoccur (and therefore it’s name)
I also didn’t think there would be issues with gaps in the numerical indexes because you rebuild the table each time you save
you don’t have to know how the indexes themselves look if you’re going to iterate through them with a for i,v in pairs loop
function loadPlace(player)
local playersBase = bases:FindFirstChild(‘EmptyBase’)
playersBase.Name = player.Name
playersBase.ItemHolder:ClearAllChildren()
local modelData = modelDataStore:GetAsync(player.UserId)
local targetModel = modelData.ModelName
local information = modelData.Position
local newModel = items:FindFirstChild(targetModel):Clone()
local position = Vector3.new(information[1], information[2], information[3])
local lookVector = Vector3.new(information[4], information[5], information[6])
newModel:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(position, position + (lookVector * 5)))
newModel.Parent = bases:FindFirstChild(player.Name).ItemHolder
end
Ok, well believe everything is saving (although when i put print models[1].ModelName it printed the same model 4 times, so idk
Now getting error in the load,
Argument 1 missing or nil
On this line
local newModel = items:FindFirstChild(targetModel):Clone()
I suppose it prints the same name 4 times because [1] refers to first entry in the table, regardless of how many are there
since you edited the way savePlace() handles data, you need to change it accordingly in loadPlace() function too
namely, when you use GetAsync() to load the data from the datastore, you’ll recieve ‘models’, and not ‘modelData’, and you’ll have to iterate through it like this
local models = modelDataStore:GetAsync(player.UserId)
for _, modelData in pairs(models) do
– use of modelData here
end
Works!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
Wait… just found a new problem it saves and loads, but since there are 6 bases right, each with a different position in the world, if you come back a later day and get put in a different base and load your models, it loads them in the other bases instead of your own base…
maybe you should save their positions relative to the baseplate they are on or something like that
Each base has a Part called ‘Base’ If I made that the PrimaryPart for each base, would there be a way to save each persons base based on the base parts position and orientation?
Ideally, you shouldn’t save anything assuming a base will keep the same position in the world, as you may want to move it at any point in time. Instead, just save the relative position of the model to the base, and use that relative position to place the model again when the player gets a base in a new server.
I haven’t got a clue as to how to do that…
If you don’t need to account for orientation, you can simply take away the tycoonBaseplate’s position when saving, and add it back on when you load. for example:
saving:
local position = primaryPart.Position - tycoonBaseplate.Position
loading:
local position = Vector3.new(information[1], information[2], information[3]) + tycoonBaseplate.Position
Back when i made restaurant tycoon, I didn’t know how to deal with the problem of orientation so I simply put all the tycoons in one long line. xD
However, since you need to account for the orientation, you need to use the CFrame of the tycoon baseplate instead of position.
saving:
local position = tycoonBaseplate.CFrame:inverse() * primaryPart.Position
loading:
local position = tycoonBaseplate.CFrame * Vector3.new(information[1], information[2], information[3])
I hope that works and i hope it makes sense!
For me it says: 103: Arrays is not allowed in Data Stores. What to do?
Hay, it’s probably very late, but this article should guide you through this!