Proximity Prompt Studio Beta

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#254

You can set the offset of the ProximityPrompt to make them into a list shape.

#255

In regards to the UIOffset property: I’ve seen many people ask about prompts stacking when there are multiple parented to the same instance. While we can work with the API to create an automated process for changing this offset now, are there any plans to have this feature built in? It’s an important feature in most proximity based interaction systems that seems to be missing here.

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#256

can i copy your homework ?

"yea just change it up a bit so it doesn’t look obvious you copied"

UI

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#257

I tested it out and I gotta say it’s a great addition. It’s noticeable “easier” than doing it the “old fashioned” way. Also, I was able to achieve the stacking interactions with a rather hacky method…

I was hoping they would have the ability to have multiple interactions with different inputs on one ProximityPrompt. Stacking the prompts is still possible by creating multiple ProximityPrompts. If the ability to add multiple interactions per prompt were added I’d hope for a script based API where you can add multiple interactions per prompt with something like AddInteraction(name, keyCode, ...). Of course a toggle would likely need to be added to the prompt instance itself. But I do believe this would be an excellent QOL change to the prompts themselves.

In addition to the AddInteraction there should also be RemoveInteraction(name) it could also be based off of keyCode instead of name. Overall this would make it a bit easier to have multiple interactions on one object instead of needing to add multiple prompts per object.

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#258

The same exists for sounds when in tools. They keep playing from the spot in which you un-equip your tool.
In general I’d recommend disabling stuff like ProximityPrompts and Sounds when the parent of the tool is in Backpack, or even move the Sound Emitter on the HumanoidRootPart.

#259

Insane, works great! No more need to calculate distance/magnitude and struggle with creating BillBoardGui’s, as well as making sure only one shows at a time haha.
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#260

The proximity prompt doesnt work when i assign the ProximityPrompt’s Parent as a part of the character

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#261

When can we expect this to launch? Ive messed with it a bit in studio and its AMAZING, the only thing I dont understand is how to do a custom GUI.

#262

Thanks for checking it out!
We will launch the feature once we are confident that we have addressed all the issues and it’s up to our standards. Conservatively, that will be early next year.

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#263

Wow, this is a great new feature! Can’t wait to try it out. If I run into any problems on the way I’ll make sure to note it here. This is going to make development so much easier for so many people!

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#264

Just compute the Magnitude of the click detector and the player on a server level.

IE:

(Player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position-ClickDetector.Parent.Position).Magnitude

#265

Is it possible to get this feature rolled out sooner for a few beta users?
I am making a restaurant/cafe type game and I am using ProximityPrompts for a interactive system and a lot of it is already made with it. It would be very appreciated if I could get it rolled out into an actual game early, and then help bug test even further.

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#267

It won’t work because roblox calculates the magnitude from the Mouse’s Position. Try your code yourself and you will see what I mean, make a big part by the way and make sure the size of it is not like 2,2,2. Just make sure is not a square.

local Part = script.Parent
local ClickDetector = Part.ClickDetector

ClickDetector.MouseClick:Connect(function(player)
       local HumanoidRootPart = player.Character.PrimaryPart
       if (HumanoidRootPart.Position - Part.Position).Magnitude > ClickDetector.MaxActivationDistance then
          print("You are exploiting, sorry if I caught you by mistake since this is not accurate...")
       end
end)

EDIT: So yes, Roblox’s use the MousePosition.

#268

This is honestly an awesome feature to have built into Roblox. It will definitely make it a lot easier to create interaction prompts.

When this gets out of beta I definitely plan on using it. I’ll still check out the API for the beta.

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#269

Just add a few to the conditional like a feather. No anti-exploit needs to be 100% accurate, but it needs to be 100% accurate in terms of false positives. It’s better to let a guilty player go free than punish an innocent.

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#270

I did a weird thing already, but Roblox should do an accurate check for us, not everything needs to be inaccurate. Mine doesn’t have false positives, instead it expands the range a lot more, if you are really far of it, it will get you. The thing is that is not accurate. I want to catch the exploiter properly.

EDIT: Instances should be secured to use. I hate that they have backdoors, at least some of them…
EDIT: 12/9/2020: I already found a way for accurate checks. Still, Roblox should fix those issues.

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#271

When this comes out, I’m not gonna use it for its intended purpose of showing prompts.
If this feature proves to be more performant than running a loop on a player’s position (or firing an event every time their position changes), I can see many different uses.
Like an animation that occurs when you get close to it, or a custom rendering system where complex character models are loaded in when the event fires (because we still can’t do custom stuff like this with streaming enabled).

I think this feature should be decoupled

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#273

Good use case, we’ll look into this.

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#274

To do this as it is right now, you could add a ProximityPrompt in a part and do this:

Set the KeyboardKeyCode to “W”, so when the player walks near it by pressing W, it triggers.

To make it “invisible”, set the UIOffset to a huge number, which will move the GUI far away from the part and out of a player’s view. You can also remove the ActionText.

This prompt should then fire a Triggered event when the player walks within the MaxActivationDistance of the part.

#277

I can’t wait till this leaves beta! It will make it so much easier to make interaction prompts. :+1:

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