Region3 not working correctly

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Hello! I am making a simple script where if the player is inside of a part it prints something every second (obviously I would add to this but I encountered a bug), here is the script.

local safeZone = workspace.SafeZone
local min = Vector3.new(safeZone.Position.X-safeZone.Size.X/2, safeZone.Position.Y-safeZone.Size.Y/2, safeZone.Position.Z-safeZone.Size.Z/2)
local max= Vector3.new(safeZone.Position.X+safeZone.Size.X/2, safeZone.Position.Y+safeZone.Size.Y/2, safeZone.Position.Z+safeZone.Size.Z/2)

local safeZoneRegion = Region3.new(min, max)
while true do
	wait()
	local parts = workspace:FindPartsInRegion3(safeZoneRegion, safeZone, 1000)
	for i, part in pairs(parts) do
		if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil then
			local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
			print(player.Name .. " in zone and added score point.")
			wait(1)
		end
	end
end

As you can see I am using Region3, my issue is that when the player walks out of the zone sometimes it will keep printing and I am confused as to why.

Could anyone help? Thank you!

2

change this

if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") ~= nil then

to this

if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
3

Thank you for replying, it unfortunately did the same thing:

local safeZone = workspace.SafeZone
local min = Vector3.new(safeZone.Position.X-safeZone.Size.X/2, safeZone.Position.Y-safeZone.Size.Y/2, safeZone.Position.Z-safeZone.Size.Z/2)
local max= Vector3.new(safeZone.Position.X+safeZone.Size.X/2, safeZone.Position.Y+safeZone.Size.Y/2, safeZone.Position.Z+safeZone.Size.Z/2)

local safeZoneRegion = Region3.new(min, max)
while true do
	wait()
	local parts = workspace:FindPartsInRegion3(safeZoneRegion, safeZone, 1000)
	for i, part in pairs(parts) do
		if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
			local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
			print(player.Name .. " in zone and added score point.")
			wait(1)
		end
	end
end
4

use this for loop and see what happens?

for i, part in pairs(parts) do
		if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
		        
			print(part.Parent.Name .. " in zone and added score point.")
			wait(1)
		end
	end
5

This is probably because you’re waiting a second each time you check a part inside the region. If you had 5 of your bodyparts inside the region, then it would check the first part, wait a second, check the second part, wait another second, etc.

6

That is genius! It makes total sense, but how would I make it wait because I only want it to do the action every second.

7

Put the wait(1) outside of the for loop, and you can remove the wait() on the 2nd line of the while loop. You should also probably add a check to see if the player already received a point for that region iteration (if you have 5 bodyparts in the region, then you would be getting 5 points per second)

8

Don’t do that the loop will then crash his game if you remove the wait().

9

It won’t crash if you put the wait(1) outside of the for loop

10

Try this:

local safeZone = workspace.SafeZone
local min = Vector3.new(safeZone.Position.X-safeZone.Size.X/2, safeZone.Position.Y-safeZone.Size.Y/2, safeZone.Position.Z-safeZone.Size.Z/2)
local max = Vector3.new(safeZone.Position.X+safeZone.Size.X/2, safeZone.Position.Y+safeZone.Size.Y/2, safeZone.Position.Z+safeZone.Size.Z/2)
local flag = false
local player = nil

local safeZoneRegion = Region3.new(min, max)
while wait() do
	local parts = workspace:FindPartsInRegion3(safeZoneRegion, safeZone, 1000)
	for i, part in pairs(parts) do
		if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
			player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
			flag = true
			break
		end
	end
	wait(1)
	if flag == true then
		flag = false
		print(player.Name .. " in zone and added score point.")
	end
end
11

Yes it does not crash. It works, but as you said I need to add a debounce because it prints like 16 times. Any idea on how I should do that?

12

Looks great but the only problem is that it doesn’t pass through my player variable, and I need that for adding the point.

13

I would probably make a table with all the players that have already been checked and only award the point if the player wasn’t already in the table

Something like this maybe (haven’t tested it):

local safeZone = workspace.SafeZone
local min = Vector3.new(safeZone.Position.X-safeZone.Size.X/2, safeZone.Position.Y-safeZone.Size.Y/2, safeZone.Position.Z-safeZone.Size.Z/2)
local max= Vector3.new(safeZone.Position.X+safeZone.Size.X/2, safeZone.Position.Y+safeZone.Size.Y/2, safeZone.Position.Z+safeZone.Size.Z/2)

local safeZoneRegion = Region3.new(min, max)
local checked = {}
while true do
	local parts = workspace:FindPartsInRegion3(safeZoneRegion, safeZone, 1000)
	for i, part in pairs(parts) do
		if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
			local player = game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(part.Parent)
			if player and not checked[player] then
				checked[player] = true
				print(player.Name .. " in zone and added score point.")
			end
		end
	end
	for i in pairs(checked) do
		checked[i] = nil
	end
	wait(1)
end
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14

Seems to work perfect, thank you!