"Bubble-styled" confetti UI and oxygen system

datBlueh4t · June 10, 2024, 10:06pm

Hi there, fellow devs!
I’m developing a solo-handed realistic/vibe-styled experience — might walk in here with a few photos down by the Creations Feedback avenue, but that’s besides the point — and I’ve already been walking around the developer forum, bumping into modules and scripts along the way, but I couldn’t understand where they should go. That’s why I’m asking for help myself!

The main question: what’s it that I need help with?

Simple. How am I meant to create a confetti system that is attached to the user’s UI, and how can I know whenever they dive into the water for a swim?

// Checked topics. //
When I said I checked dev forum topics, I wasn’t kidding. Here’s what I walked into and that I could not comprehend.

Detecting If User Is In Water

I actually did something like this today, but the system was to either detect if someone was jumping on top of the water or was inside the water, it was quite easy (after finding out that using rays wouldn’t be that good compared to using regions).

The whole idea is to use Region3 and workspace.Terrain:ReadVoxels with the Head’s position (well region).
If the player is on top of water or inside water in general then their floor material will be Air, so a way to filter out the players that are not in water without using Regions would be checking their floor material type (humanoid.FloorMaterial), then you can do the following :
	local min = head.Position - (.5 * head.Size)
	local max = head.Position + (.5 * head.Size)	
	local region = Region3.new(min,max):ExpandToGrid(4)
	
	local material = workspace.Terrain:ReadVoxels(region,4)[1][1][1] 
	if material == Enum.Material.Water then
              print("under water")
        end
That’s how you’d check if the player is swimming or under water, however if you want to check if the user is on top of water or is in water in general then you can use their humanoidrootpart.
		min = root.Position - (4 * root.Size)
		max = root.Position + (4 * root.Size)	
		region = Region3.new(min,max):ExpandToGrid(4)
		material = workspace.Terrain:ReadVoxels(region,4)[1][1][1]
again if material is water then they’re under water or on top of water.

Using rays is horrible in this case because if you’re raycasting from inside the water it will not hit it, you can fix that by raycast from above the water (which you wouldn’t really know, and you’d never know if the ray won’t hit someone else’s character), that can be fixed by using FindPartOnRayWithWhitelist but at this point It’s just better to use regions, it’ll fit better.

Any assistance is of big help. Cya around!