What can I do to solve laggy map issue?

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#1

I just finished this map for an upcoming laser tag styled game that I’m working on. I love the map and think that it came out pretty decent (considering that I’m new to developing). I’m able to run this map on max graphic settings but about a 3rd of my game testers said that the map was laggy for them. I really don’t know how to solve this issue. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Link To The Map: LaserTagMap1 - Roblox

Pictures Of The Map

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Map Details:
Almost every part has a “Selector” inside of it (to create the outline effect)
A lot of the parts also contain multiple surface lights

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#2

Minimize the amount of unnecessary parts.
Also, when I played your game, the border was switching colors, you could possibly remove that.
Overall, I wasn’t experiencing much lag, my max ping was 56.7, but I have a good computer.

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#3

I have a 2080 and a 3700x and my fps can’t stay above 45 on that, so there is definitely a problem.

Have you tried seeing a difference by removing the selectors?
If not, try typing “Script” in explorer and deleting all of them and see if that makes a change.

(You can then revert this under “Version History” at “Configure Place”)

#4

Part count shouldn’t be what’s causing your lag, the map is fairly small and not over the top detailed. I would suggest looking at your scripts for what is changing the lights on the bricks- are you using individual scripts per block or one single script? Perhaps post the code so we can look at optimizing it. That’s where I think the lag may be coming from.

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#5

Each part that has an outline has a selector in it with these scripts in them

while true do
wait(1)
script.Parent.Adornee = script.Parent.Parent
end

while true do
wait(0.1)
script.Parent.Color3 = script.Parent.Parent.Color
script:Destroy()
end
#6

The loop isn’t stopping, and theres multiple, so thats whats causing the lag.

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#7

You could have one script, that cycles through each selector and changes their color, instead of multiple changing single selectors.

For example, if you put all of your selectors in a model you could do
for i, #selectors (workspace.selectorModel:GetChildren) do
selector.Color = BrickColor.new(color here),

Alternatively, you could just have a tween on loop which would not only make it a lot smoother, but more customizable and hopefully less laggy.
One of my favorite plugins to use for things like this is the Tween Sequence Editor

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