As a Roblox developer, there are often scenarios where I want to find the closest accurate point on a basepart’s surface (cylinders, meshes, cubes, etc). Roblox released an API for this in May of 2023 :
However, this API has been disabled for nearly 9 months (it’s only usable in studio), so we are unable to make use of these in live servers. As a result, we’re forced to make approximate guesses and can only work with basic shapes, which severely limits the functionality of certain game mechanics (e.g. a climbing ability that works on arbitrary shapes).
God yes. Please. Please. I’ve been building a new feature for my game that depends on this API. Imagine my dismay when I found out the API was not enabled in live game servers and that my hard work may go to waste!
Please, this is such a useful API. Please enable it.
Full support. Was trying to find the closest point on a model from a single point for the purposes of applying explosion damage based on distance a few months ago only to find that I had to make my own functions from scratch (see below) since the API still isn’t enabled. Here’s hoping it gets enabled soon for ease of use at the very least.
This function was briefly enabled in some release version a few months ago and disabled shortly after, and has never been re-enabled since. I’m not sure why since it worked perfectly fine when I used it.
One thing I learned from that brief usage is that the surface is based on the CollisionFidelity and not the faces of the part/mesh. This could change when it returns though. If not then someone will make a similar function using Editable Meshes.
We NEED this
I’m so disappointed. I just wrote an entire grabbing system surrounding this but it’s disabled in-game! Me and my friends were so hyped to test…
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