Making A Chunk Loader/Unloader

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#1

Greetings,

I want to create a working chunk loading/unloading system for my game because of the use of many parts and voxels. What I want to accomplish and my questions are as follows:

What I want to accomplish:

  • Make a system which locally unloads chunks (unloads parts which are far away and voxels which aren’t visible to the eye)

  • Make a system which locally reloads chunks (at a certain distance)

What I question:

  • How do you make a part/voxel “unload”, and how do you make it “reload”?

  • Is it even possible to check if voxels are visible to the camera?

  • Can you make the transition from unloaded to reloaded seamless? Ex. when you look out from around a hill, the unloaded voxels/parts reappear instantaneously

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,

R3M1X

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#2

Hey there,

After several attempts and many devforum visits, I highly recommend turning on streamingenabled instead. A chunk loading system actually ended up making my game more laggy.

Hope this helped, HiddenKaiser

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#3

I will consider using it, but it is also flawed in some ways. I will continue looking into ways to better create this type of loading/reloading, but I will use it if there are no other ways to better use this type of system in my game.
Thanks for your feedback,

R3M1X

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#4

I understand that this will not solve your problem, but still try to use this local script inside StarterCharacterScript:


local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer;
local char = script.Parent or plr.Character or plr.CharacterAdded:Wait();
local HRP = char:WaitForChild('HumanoidRootPart');

local Loaded = workspace:WaitForChild('Map'); -- Folder with objects to be Loaded/Unloaded
local Unloaded = game:GetService('ReplicatedStorage'):WaitForChild('Unloaded_objs'); -- The folder where the objects will be unloaded (I advise you to put it in Replicated Storage)

local Render_distance = 150; -- The distance in divisions at which objects will be loaded

game:GetService('RunService').RenderStepped:Connect(function()
	
	for _, obj in ipairs(Loaded:GetDescendants()) do
		
		if obj and obj:IsA('BasePart') then
			
			if  (HRP.Position - obj.Position).Magnitude > Render_distance then
				
				obj.Parent = Unloaded;
				
			end
		end
	end
	
	for _, obj in ipairs(Unloaded:GetDescendants()) do

		if obj and obj:IsA('BasePart') then

			if  (HRP.Position - obj.Position).Magnitude <= Render_distance then

				obj.Parent = Loaded;

			end
		end
	end
end)

Дайте знать, если это помогло!

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