Terrain Saving/Loading

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#1

Hey I thought it would be neat to save terrain into some sort of readable data, and then generate that same terrain in chunks from the client-side.

I tried finding resources on this but I was unsuccessful. I’ve been away from Roblox for a while, so I came to ask if this has been done already, or if you have any suggestions.

#2

You can use datastore to save and restore the name and location of the part the guy put in.
(i used translate my english bad sorry)
and instead of a regular datastore you can use the Profile Service made by loleris

#3

Let me revise what I said.

Currently Terrain is one single object or service. Terrain | Roblox Creator Documentation
However, I want to save the Terrain into vectors or something. That way I can keep the data in ReplicatedStorage, and then generate the terrain from individual clients.

#4

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Here’s what I have so far. This is a visual representation of the “top layer” of the terrain. Basically I used ReadVoxels to get each chunk of the terrain and then process it. I used a for loop starting from the top and then going down until it finds a Y value with a non-air voxel.

Going forward I think I will process each chunk by putting the voxel data into module scripts by chunks. So for 64 studs, you get 16^3 voxels, resulting in 4096 values in a 3D table. I will let the module scripts return the table so a script can process them in multiple coroutines.