Unable to populate CFrame values with variables

[GooseTechTips]

1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
   I’d like to copy cframe values from a saved database and apply them to the currentcamera

2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
   Any way I have tried applying the CFrame values, they always turn into 0’s … my latest attempt is below.

3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
   Much iterative sweat and many pleas to Google

The CFrame is retrieved in string format from the Datastore and looks like this:

location = "181.934998, 31.7661476, -178.768829, 0.914765835, 0, 0.403984576, 0, 1, 0, -0.403984576, 0, 0.914765835"

I turn that into a variable called ‘coordinates’ and then split it like this:

local coordinate_parts = string.split(location, " ")

then I populate the CFrame on the currentcamera like so:

camera.CFrame =  CFrame.new(coordinate_parts[1],coordinate_parts[2],coordinate_parts[3],coordinate_parts[4],coordinate_parts[5],coordinate_parts[6],coordinate_parts[7],coordinate_parts[8],coordinate_parts[9],coordinate_parts[10],coordinate_parts[11],coordinate_parts[12])

testing the .split like this:

print(coordinate_parts[1]) -- expected value is returned

The problem: the currentcamera.CFrame is always (0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0)

Thanks!!!

[Intencidy (smelvin)]

Try wrapping each parameter of CFrame.new in a tonumber().

[ElusiveEpix (Epix)]

That’s because all your coordinates include a comma.

Also, if saving to data store, I would recommend a binary format to save a lot of space.
Serializing:

serialized = string.pack("<ffffffffffff", cf:GetComponents())

Deserializing:

deserialized = CFrame.new(string.unpack("<ffffffffffff", saved))

[VegetationBush (FartedWayTooHard)]

The first step is to set the CameraType to Scriptable, as this allows scripts to edit the camera:

camera.CameraType = Enum.CameraType.Scriptable

The second step is to split the saved string correctly:

local savedString = "1, 2, 3, 4"

-->> what you're currently doing
local coordinate_parts = string.split(savedString, " ") --> "1,", "2,", "3,", "4,"

-->> what you need to do
local coordinate_parts = string.split(savedString, ", ") --> "1", "2", "3", "4"

Quick tip. You don’t need to index each key in coordinate_parts, you can use table.unpack instead:

local cf = CFrame.new(table.unpack(coordinate_parts))

table.unpack basically splits an array into a tuple.
Here’s a visualization:

local str = "1, 2, 3, 4"
local splitString = string.split(savedString, ", ") --> "1", "2", "3", "4"
local a, b, c, d = table.unpack(splitString)
print(a, b, c, d) --> "1 2 3 4"

[GooseTechTips]

@VegetationBush

-->> what you need to do
local coordinate_parts = string.split(savedString, ", ") --> "1", "2", "3", "4"

Thank you. Please feel free to get in touch if you think I could ever help you.

[GooseTechTips]

Thank you. This is a great suggestion

Please feel free to get in touch if you think I could ever help you with anything.

[GooseTechTips]

@ElusiveEpix

Also, if saving to data store, I would recommend a binary format to save a lot of space.

Thank you! Get in touch if I can ever help.