Making a custom inventory, need a bit of help figuring it out

[hushed galleon]

I just need help figuring out how to script this

both containers and the player's inventory store items/data using numbers inside of arrays like this

Barrel Inventory (four Goat Cheese Wheels)

local inventory = {1,1,1,1}```

Player Inventory (Nothing)
```lua
local inventory = {}```

in this case, Goat Cheese Wheels have an ID of 1

[steep obsidian]

Wdym

[hushed galleon]

im trying to make an ID-based custom inventory

using a number to define an item and its values

for example

1 would represent a goat cheese wheel, which has a value of 5, a weight of 1, and a category of Food

[steep obsidian]

Use module scripts and metatables

Or without metatables I think it can be done too

[hushed galleon]

could you elaborate a bit?

im still kinda new to scripts

[thin halo]

If u want help dm me @hushed galleon

[hushed galleon]

are you gonna make me pay for it

cause im trying to learn how to do this

[steep obsidian]

Don't take any help from him it's ai generated

[thin halo]

Bro just go learn from YouTube

[hushed galleon]

noted

[thin halo]

https://tenor.com/view/surprised-gif-25662315

I am ai

[steep obsidian]

But yeah you should learn OOP and module scripts

Module scripts will make it so easy if you learn it

[thin halo]

https://tenor.com/view/i-am-robot-dancing-funny-gif-14355392

[hushed galleon]

alr

[pliant idol]

Personally instead of an array table I'd do ItemID = ItemCount if you want to allow for item stacking

Your question is kind of vague though I mean there's a lot that goes into a system like this

[hushed galleon]

i know

[steep obsidian]

I'm not even intermediate in scripting but I would make a modulescriot for each item and store their data there

[hushed galleon]

im still trying to figure out how im gonna do this myself

[hushed galleon]

aight

[steep obsidian]

Like make a module script named Apple or wtv and a dictionary for ID weight and anything you need

[hushed galleon]

could you send a documentation for it?

[steep obsidian]

Unless u want the weight to change

[steep obsidian]

You should check out some videos on yt about module scripts

[hushed galleon]

id like to be able to customize value

[steep obsidian]

You wanna make it so that when a player gets an item the weight of each item won't be the same each time?

[hushed galleon]

as in value in gold

[hushed galleon]

nope

[pliant idol]

Yes.

ModuleScript.Items = {
 GoatCheese = {DisplayName = "Goat Cheese", "Weight = 2, Value = 5, Category = "Food"}
}

or 
ModuleScript.Items = {
 1 = {Name = "Goat Cheese" Weight = 2, Value = 5, Category = "Food"}
}

[hushed galleon]

im making Skyrim's inventory system

weight is consistent, however value changes

[steep obsidian]

Then you should probably make a new folder parent it to player name it inventory and store string values in there with attributes like weight etc

[hushed galleon]

Do note that this is for a singleplayer game, so some limitations can be lifted

[pliant idol]

Changing the value of the item is a bit different, if you want every player to have different item values you would need to save it to datastore

[pliant idol]

Oh that's way easier, just edit Value like so;

ModuleScript.Items.GoatCheese.Value = 10

you will still need to save it to a datastore though and load it when the player first joins

[hushed galleon]

awesome!

i should send a screenshot of the inventory display rq

left rectangle displays category, right rectangle displays items

[pliant idol]

in a real system it would look something like this (This is simplified)

local ModuleScript = require(script.ModuleScript)

local function UpdateItemValue(ItemID, Value)
  if ModuleScript.Items[ItemID] then
    ModuleScript.Items[ItemID].Value = Value
  end
end)

[surreal verge]

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[hushed galleon]

i need to add another rectangle rq

[pliant idol]

A note for UI: UIPadding, UIListLayout, and UIGridLayout are all very useful

[hushed galleon]

ooo that second one looks useful

[pliant idol]

If I were making this system I would make item categories not hard coded and use both UIPadding and UiListLayout to add all valid Item categories as buttons

[hushed galleon]

this is what skyrim's inventory looks like

for reference

[pliant idol]

Oh you got that no problem

Making a ViewportFrame to display the model of the items is not as hard as you're probably thinking

[hushed galleon]

awesome

[pliant idol]

https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/ModuleScript - Useful for organizing / optimizing system IMO this isn't optional
https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/ViewportFrame - Useful for displaying model of item
https://create.roblox.com/docs/ui/ui-drag-detectors - Useful if you want to rotate the model when you hold click and move mouse over displayed model

[hushed galleon]

how would i make a scrollable list for the items and category?

[hushed galleon]

in skyrim the inventory is scrolled up and down, but the category at the center is bigger than the others

[steep obsidian]

ScrollableFrame

And inside of it uigridlayout or uilistlayout depending on what youre trying to achieve and also inside the scrollableframe frames of the items

[hushed galleon]

i got that set up, is there a way i can stop the player from scrolling past the top boundary?

nvm

[pliant idol]

canvas size

[hushed galleon]

im gonna use the scrolling list to display items instead

[pliant idol]

also you can use UIPadding in a scrolling frame if I recall, handy for getting it looking just right

I would use the absolute value for UIPadding though

so do something like {0.1, 0} not {0, 1}

[hushed galleon]

i got the thing set up

now to make it display the player's inventory

ill give the player one goat cheese wheel to start

i gotta make the info display UI rq

[chrome pasture]

when I made it I (personally) never used module scripts, I just had a server script which had an array that had name of all players and inside of it dictionaries with an item name and quantity lua local GlobalInventories = { ["PlayerName"] = { ["Item1"] = 5 } }

vro 💔 code block ain't blocking

[hushed galleon]

its not multiplayer

[chrome pasture]

u can do the same

[hushed galleon]

epic

[hushed galleon]

i cant use this for players, however... i can use it for containers

[hushed galleon]

ill work on it more tomorrow

[pliant idol]

Damn that means every time you edited the inventory it was in that one script, how long was it?