Endless Ground Generation

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#1

For context: I’m trying to recreate a game called Dead Rails, where it has endless Ground -generation.

However, I wanna make whenever the player gets close, it creates new grounds.
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My first solution is to have the ground be apart of the rails, but since the rails can be rotated, it would have a lot of z-fighting.

Any ideas?

#2

I didn’t understand your problem

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#3

Sorry if my wording was wrong, think of the ground as a baseplate. Whenever the player gets close to the edge of the baseplate, it creates a new baseplate that would be infront of the previous baseplate

#4

I’m not sure you’re problem either.

#5

You can just check the previous size x value and have it subtract or add .001, with a math.clamp to prevent stuff from getting to low or high.

#6

Perosnally, since the texture on the baseplate is an 8x8 texture (if im not mistaken) i would do something like this:
It doesnt generate ground but it keeps the ground positioned around the player

local Base = game.Workspace.BasePlate
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local GridSize = 8

RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(Function()
    if not game.player.LocalPlayer.Character then return end
    if not game.player.LocalPlayer.Character.HumanoidRootPart then return end
    local PlayerPos = game.player.LocalPlayer.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position

    local NewPos = vector3.new(math.round(PlayerPos.X / GridSize) * GridSize, Base.Position.Y, math.round(PlayerPos.Z / GridSize) * GridSize)
    Base.Position = NewPos
end)
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#7

if you want an easy solution, just make a part at the end of some rails, and when the part is touched, put more rails in front.

local touchPart = game.Workspace.Part
local endPart = game.Workspace.EndPart

touchPart.Touched:Connect(function()
  local newRail = script.Rail:Clone()
newRail:PivotTo(endPart.CFrame)

touchPart = newRail.part
endPart = newRail.endPart
-- just example, but you get it
end)