Table/Particle enabled DataStore help!

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1

I’ve tried so many thing, posted so many topic and nothing has worked. I’m at the last straw with this DataStore. I cannot figure out why the Particle.Enabled property and the Sound.Volume property are not saving. I’ve tried so many DevForum topics, free models, YouTube videos, nothing.

Game API is on

Script:

local DataStoreService = game:GetService("DataStoreService")
local SettingsDataStore = DataStoreService:GetDataStore("SettingsDataStore")

game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(Player)
	local ParticleData
	local SoundData
	
	for i, Particle in pairs(game.Workspace:GetDescendants()) do
		if Particle:IsA("ParticleEmitter") then
			ParticleData = Particle.Enabled
		end
	end
	
	for i, Sound in pairs(game.SoundService:GetDescendants()) do
		if Sound.Name ~= "BackgroundMusic" and Sound:IsA("Sound") then
			SoundData = Sound.Volume
		end
	end
	
	local Data
	local DataToSave = {
		ParticleData;
		SoundData;
	}
	
	local Success, Error = pcall(function()
		Data = SettingsDataStore:GetAsync(Player.UserId)
	end)
	
	if Success then
		DataToSave[1] = Data[1]
		DataToSave[2] = Data[2]
	else
		warn(Error)
	end
end)

game.Players.PlayerRemoving:Connect(function(Player)
	local ParticleData
	local SoundData

	for i, Particle in pairs(game.Workspace:GetDescendants()) do
		if Particle:IsA("ParticleEmitter") then
			ParticleData = Particle.Enabled
		end
	end

	for i, Sound in pairs(game.SoundService:GetDescendants()) do
		if Sound.Name ~= "BackgroundMusic" and Sound:IsA("Sound") then
			SoundData = Sound.Volume
		end
	end

	local DataToSave = {
		ParticleData;
		SoundData;
	}
	
	local Success, Error = pcall(function()
		SettingsDataStore:SetAsync(Player.UserId, DataToSave)
	end)
	
	if Success then
		print("Player data saved!")
	else
		warn(Error)
	end
end)

Please help,

  • Skylexion
2

DataToSave is not globally available as a variable. You’ll instead want to keep a table that keeps track of the data to save for each of the players, and then access that when saving.

Edit: Never mind. I misread the script.

3

What exactly is shown in the output? And from what I’m seeing right now,

You’re not actually setting the Particle.Enabled/Sound.Volume property after the data is loaded in when the player joins. You’re just setting values in the “DataToSave” table.

Instead of the code snippet that I quoted above, try setting the property of the particles/sound to the saved datastore value if that makes sense.

4

There is nothing in the output.

5

Could you provide an example of how I’d get the saved DataStore value?

6

Referencing the piece of code aforementioned:

Since you’re saving your datastore in a table that looks like this:

{
ParticleData,
SoundData;
}

Data[1] would represent your ParticleData and Data[2] would represent SoundData. And just like in the PlayerAdded event where you find each Particle/Sound and set it’s desired value, you would do the same after you fetched the player’s data.

You could copy/paste the for loops that you did in the beginning of your PlayerAdded event with one change and add it inside of the if Success then statement :

for i, Particle in pairs(game.Workspace:GetDescendants()) do
		if Particle:IsA("ParticleEmitter") then
			Particle.Enabled = Data[1] --Setting the ENABLED property to the fetched player data.
		end
	end
	
	for i, Sound in pairs(game.SoundService:GetDescendants()) do
		if Sound.Name ~= "BackgroundMusic" and Sound:IsA("Sound") then
			Sound.Volume = Data[2] --Setting the VOLUME property to the fetched data
		end
	end
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8

Like this?

	if Success then
		for i, Particle in pairs(game.Workspace:GetDescendants()) do
			if Particle:IsA("ParticleEmitter") then
				Particle.Enabled = Data[1]
			end
		end

		for i, Sound in pairs(game.SoundService:GetDescendants()) do
			if Sound.Name ~= "BackgroundMusic" and Sound:IsA("Sound") then
				Sound.Volume = Data[2]
			end
		end

	else
		warn(Error)
	end
9

Just like that :slight_smile: What happens when you run your game now

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10

Still doesn’t work. Makes no sense.

11

Should I format the SetAsync the same way?