Need a little help with a datastore sort of issue.

[torn dome]

1. don't stack waitforchilds for no reason. it exists. and you'll only usually ever need one for the parent
2. does it have time to get the profile

[radiant canyon]

@torn dome i fixed it my self, and also it was cause of what u said, there wasnt enough time

so i just did a repeat task.wait() until the profile loads

[torn dome]

thats not a good way to do it

[radiant canyon]

?

i dont see a problem withit

[torn dome]

yeahhh not really

you could do a signal inside datamanager when the player is loaded

[radiant canyon]

how would i do that?

[torn dome]

https://github.com/Data-Oriented-House/LemonSignal/blob/main/src/init.lua
then paste inside a module script

https://data-oriented-house.github.io/LemonSignal/ for docs

[radiant canyon]

i mean im doing this for a commision lol, wouldnt really look good to have someone elses code inside of it 😭

[torn dome]

??

it's... a library? and that's completely normal to use

it looks worse you're asking for help than using a simple library

esp one that isnt implemented by roblox themself

[radiant canyon]

i mean i fixed the problem by myself so 🤷‍♂️

[urban hedge]

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[torn dome]

using other peoples code for the commission = true, bad
using a library? that's fine lol

ppl better than u and me use libraries all the time

[radiant canyon]

ig i mean im already using the profile service library

so

[torn dome]

yeah

signals like

[radiant canyon]

does this go in a module script?

[torn dome]

just a recreation of bindableevents but for scripts yk

yep

[radiant canyon]

alr

[torn dome]

name it Signal
call :Fire() somewhere with whatever arguments
and then :Connect to the instance somewhere

it works like a charm

usually i do this in the same module

[radiant canyon]

im not getting what ur saying

[torn dome]

yk bindable events?

Just :Fire() and :Connect() right?

[radiant canyon]

yeah

[torn dome]

:Fire() basically calls all the connects

yeha

it's that but u dont need an instance

u get what i mean

no bindable events

good for events in modulescripts

[radiant canyon]

So instead of repeat task.wait() i would do what though

😭

ur losing me

[torn dome]

your datamanager is a module

put at the top somewhere DataManager.PlayerLoaded = Signal.new() (where Signal is a reference to the signal modulescript)

[radiant canyon]

alr

[torn dome]

then when the players loaded, do DataManager.PlayerLoaded:Fire(args)

then at the top of your script, instead of repeat do DataManager.PlayerLoaded:Wait()

where args is like. the player or whatever

doesnt really matter unless u plan to do an event when a player's loaded

[radiant canyon]

dont think i do

[torn dome]

but when you do :Wait() it returns the arguments passed anyway

so it would be the same as getting the player

and that's useful info

[radiant canyon]

like this?

😭

[torn dome]

yep!

[radiant canyon]

my whole save system isnt working anymore 😭

[torn dome]

exactly like that

ohh?

perhaps put it inside the profile ~= nil

that may fix it

put where ur leaderstats create is

like after it

[radiant canyon]

nope

😭

[torn dome]

that should do that tho 😭

[radiant canyon]

its not printing

[torn dome]

it just fires an event

[radiant canyon]

like anything

[torn dome]

ohhhh

you're checking after

[radiant canyon]

and its not saving

[torn dome]

do profile = dataManager.Profiles[plr] or dataLoader.PlayerLoaded:Wait()

[radiant canyon]

alright

nope

still doesnt work

[torn dome]

and then you can put the :Fire() args the profile

when does it not print

[radiant canyon]

only prints loaded profile

[torn dome]

wait really?

remove the wait in the other script

doubt that'll do anything

[radiant canyon]

what other script?

[torn dome]

.

[radiant canyon]

so just dataManager.PlayerLoaded?

now its erroring saying attempt to index nil with 'team' on line 27

wait actually

let me change the key to my datastore

[torn dome]

yeah u set it to signal

[torn dome]

do PlayerLoaded:Wait()
then at the Fire() do Fire(profile)

u get what i mean

[radiant canyon]

no i dont

[torn dome]

at the :Fire()

[radiant canyon]

wait

[urban hedge]

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[radiant canyon]

actually

i think i do

[torn dome]

of PlayerLoaded do :Fire(profile)

bc then :Wait() returns profile when its retrieved

[radiant canyon]

yeah i did

okay

yeah it works now

also a question

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local SSS = game:GetService("ServerScriptService")
local dataManager = require(SSS:WaitForChild("Modules"):WaitForChild("DataManager"))

local function playerChatted(player, message)
    print(player.Name .. " said: " .. message) 
    local splitMessage = string.split(message, " ")
    
    if splitMessage[1] == '/wipe' then
        local player = Players:FindFirstChild(splitMessage[2])
        if not player then return end
        local profile = dataManager.Profiles[player]
        if not profile then return end
        
        profile.Data.Team = nil
        player.leaderstats.Team.Value = "Neutral"
        player.Team = nil
    end
end

local function playerAdded(player)
    player.Chatted:Connect(function(message)
        playerChatted(player, message)
    end)
end

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(playerAdded)

is there a better way to get the player messages then this 😭

[torn dome]

not really

just put the commands in a modulescript mayhaps

function Execute would be what it does, then the name is the command name

[radiant canyon]

well the thing is would this command even work if you did display name? + it would totally break actually if u did with display names with spaces

😭

[torn dome]

prolly not

i wouldnt do displays ever

[radiant canyon]

alright