Caching terrain help

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#1

What do you want to achieve?
I want to be able to save and load terrain for a game I’m construction.

What is the issue?
The issue is that terrain, especially when I have many maps for my game, can cause lag. If I could only have one loaded at a time, it would reduce a lot of lag.

What solutions have you tried so far?
I have looked for solutions, the farthest I got was Terrain:ReadVoxels() but I couldn’t seem to get it to work properly? If anything I don’t think it can save complex terrain.

Below is a photo of just one of my maps. The terrain here is quite small but having many of them just sitting in Workspace is causing lag for my servers.

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I’m simply looking for a way to save a terrain in a table form. So if a specific map is voted on, it can load the terrain needed.

#2

I believe this is what you’re looking for. The Terrain:CopyRegion function stores the terrain data so it can be loaded and unloaded in a game.

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#3

This does work however it gets all the terrain. Do you know how I could only get a certain part?

#4

The parameter for Terrain:CopyRegion is a Region3int16. So you can change that to the region you want.

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#5

Thank you so much for the help, but do you know of a way for me to convert a part to a Region3int16 variable?

#6

This post should help.

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#7

I’ve skimmed through it and I think I know how this will work out for me and my game, thank you so much!

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