Is this a good respawn system for trees?

[lilsquish08]

Hiya, getting back into development here, so excuse my extra stupidity

Anyway, I’m working on a tree chopping mechanic and I’m currently figuring out a way to respawn trees once they have been chopped. So I came up with an idea that does techniqually work, however I want to see what you guys think.

When the health of the tree reaches 0, a BindableEvent is fired and then the tree is sent to a folder in ServerStorage. Then, the health of the tree is set back to its original value and then after a set amount of time, it is sent back to the workspace. Thoughts?

[samjay22 (Dev)]

I would set up an artificial region identified by four vector points. Then I would randomly put a tree into that zone.

[BullfrogBait]

I think this is good so far, nothing to worry about. For ‘realism’ though, maybe don’t have the tree instantly disappear (only if it does, I can’t really tell) once it’s chopped.

Also are you using metatables? Might be of interest when you want to add more data and functions to your trees.

[lilsquish08]

Yes, the tree does instantly disappear. Not too good at effects and aesthetics.

And no, I don’t use metatables. It’s just a folder in the tree with IntValues. But I’ll be sure to look in to that because I do the same thing for the axe too. I think overtime it will become to cluttered so I’ll be sure to look into it. Thanks!

[lilsquish08]

Woah, smarty pants over here…

Jokes aside, that does sound interesting. Where should I start in terms of making that? Should I use Region3?

[samjay22 (Dev)]

I wouldn’t use Rg3 simply because Roblox deprecated it for performance reasons. You can just make a box with 4 points. I would use a metastable object to define a region and simply call a method to do some logic to spawn a tree. I wrote a system similar to this in an uncopylocked game I made a while back.

The code in this isn’t the best but the concept applies.

Old.rbxl (93.8 KB)

[samjay22 (Dev)]

I also wrote multiple articles on the forums regarding OOP in LUA. I would suggest taking those a look as well as viewing my youtube. I mostly code using the OOP paradigm, its not good in all scenarios but in this one it is.

An in depth look at OOP - Roblox LUA

The player data class is ment to hold data, save data, and load data. This is how it works; I showed that exact example because that is the real life use of using such OOP scripting. I also ment that it uses memory differently than regular procedural programming. However with this higher memory usage the gain is more sustainable and functional code. I rewrote the sentence that you were referring too. I personally use OOP for almost everything that can use OOP; this may cause slight memory jumps…

An in depth look at OOP - Roblox LUA Part 2

I wrote an article a while back defining the four primary pillars in OOP. These pillars are, of course, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Abstraction; if more information is needed, please read the article I linked. Also, note that it is critical to know the material in the aforementioned post, as this article requires a firm understanding of OOP. Now that the prerequisites have been defined, let us get into the content of what will be discussed. In OOP, there is more to understan…

An in depth look at OOP - Roblox LUA Part 3

You should consider moving this to #resources:community-tutorials Since it is explaining a concept / topic and not a resource (e.g. model, plugin)

Samjay22