I was making a settings gui, and I was thinking how to save the values.
Obviously, datastore2 works like this:
Save data to datastore > value object updates
However, I cant really do that in this case, since you can easily spam the settings, potentially breaking the datastore.
How could I save multiple values like this efficently?
For the spamming settings you could just let them save their settings every so often, all ya need is a debounce
Also for the saving portion you could just use a dictionary because with Datastore2 you can effectively save a whole dictionary
_G.Data = {}
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
_G.Data[player.UserId] = {
["Settings"] = {
["Music"] = false;
["Theme"] = "Dark";
["Sounds"] = false;
}
}
end)
Get and Save
_G.Data = {}
local dataStore2 = require(1936396537)
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
local function setupUserData()
_G.Data[player.UserId] = {
["Settings"] = {
["Music"] = false;
["Theme"] = "Dark";
["Sounds"] = false;
}
}
end
local userData = dataStore2("Data", player):Get(setupUserData()) -- get
dataStore2("Data", player):Set(userData) -- save
end)
DataStore2, if I remember correctly, doesn’t need any value objects to function.
I know, I just have them so the client and server can see them
I cant just save the data every time a setting changes because it can be spammed though
So shouldn’t you save on PlayerRemoving?
Late response, but I tried this and it does not work.
I assume its because datastore2 needs a player object to get the datastore, which doesnt exist after leaving