ZonePlus v3.2.0 | Construct dynamic zones and effectively determine players and parts within their boundaries

[rottendogDkR]

It is just much area for a zone for planetary size.

[chedsapp (ched)]

This is super cool!
I made an elevator where you have to be inside the zone for more than 2 seconds to be teleported, and surprisingly it was only 30 lines!

Your modules are always very useful to me and really help cut down on the amount of work I have to do on my games. Do you take donations by any chance? I’d be willing to send you some money to help see more of these in the future.

[ForeverHD (Ben)]

I can explore support for this although more likely or not it will require Roblox itself to increase the Max BasePart size. It’s certainly worth checking out this feature request:

Increase max BasePart size

I am creating large planets, they use a custom LoD system to reduce the amount of triangles being rendered. Because these planets are so big and the amount of triangles is relatively low, the triangles need to be big. Because Roblox limits the size of parts to 2048 studs, there ends up being huge gaps between triangles on large planets. If Roblox increased the limit from 2048 this would not be an issue. Planet with 16,384 stud diameter. This is a “small” planet. [Capture] Planet with 131,072 …

[ForeverHD (Ben)]

Thanks for your kind words, and nice use of ZonePlus! I don’t take donations although sharing the resource to people who may benefit from it is always appreciated.

[WalentyRose]

Nice! Good work! Good luck with ur next work and i’m waiting for next your works! Keep it up!

[steven4547466 (Steven)]

Hey, I was wondering if Zone+ will eventually come to use the new API roblox has made available which seem useful for this:

Introducing OverlapParams - New Spatial Query API

We are adding new WorldRoot (Workspace) APIs for performing spatial queries on BaseParts. It’s never been easier to figure out what Parts are within a given box, radius, or other Part! New Spatial Queries Here are three new functions that can be used: Objects WorldRoot:GetPartBoundsInBox(CFrame cframe, Vector3 size, OverlapParams overlapParams) Returns a table of all BaseParts whose bounding boxes overlap the given box at cframe and size. cframe is for the center of the box, and orientation…

[ForeverHD (Ben)]

Coming as a mega update tomorrow/friday

[caviarbro]

Can I have a question on how much this would affect existing code (performance wise)? I’ve seen those benchmarks from OverHash and it seems pretty slower than now deprecated Region3 methods.

[ForeverHD (Ben)]

ZonePlus is currently built off EgoMoose’s RotatedRegion3 (that extends upon Region3s) which is essentially what the new API handles internally. You can be confident on Roblox supporting and improving Spatial Queries going forwards whilst this isn’t a guarantee for deprecated ones like the Region3 methods.

[caviarbro]

Because parts have 2048 studs size limit and I need to check even larger are than that may I ask if is there going to be an option (or is there already?) to create Zone without physical object (with CFrames and such)?

[imdednowgoaway (ImDed)]

Last question, does ZonePlus still detect players if its in localscript?

[ForeverHD (Ben)]

v3.0.0 Breakdown

New version, yay!

1. Goodbye RotatedRegion3, hello OverlapParams

Internal Region and RotatedRegion3 checks have been entirely replaced with the new Spatial Query API. This should bring about performance gains, particularly over the long term as this API is improved.

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2. You can now track anything

With new Item events and methods you can now track anything. Humanoid Dummies? Check. Zombie NPCs? Check. Spaceships? Check. Pineapple Bombs? Check.

First, setup your events:

zone.itemEntered:Connect(function(item)
    print(("item '%s' entered the zone!"):format(item.Name))
end)

zone.itemExited:Connect(function(item)
    print(("item '%s' exited the zone!"):format(item.Name))
end)

Then simply track any BasePart, Character or NPC you wish to have detected when entering and exiting the zones:

zone:track(zombieNPC)
zone:track(spaceshipHullPart)
etc

@g_dson @Stellabotrus This solves the humanoidEvent feature request and touchTransmitter issue you mentioned.

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3. One-time use methods

Introducing zone:onItemEnter and zone:onItemExit which track a specific item until it has entered/exited the zone, then calls the given callbackFunction.

local item = character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
zone:onItemEnter(item, function()
    print("The item has entered the zone!"))
end)

local item = character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
    zone:onItemExit(item, function()
    print("The item has exited the zone!"))
end)

This is useful for scenarios where you may only want to listen for an item entering/exiting a zone after a certain trigger, instead of constantly.

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4. Enhance zones with bindable SettingsGroups

A frequently reported difficulty in the past has been to do with zones that rest directly next to each other. If you were creating zones for example which played and stopped music, you would often find music played/stopped incorrectly as the entered event of one zone would fire before the exited event of the other zone.

This can now be overcome by simply binding those zones to the same settingsGroup:

for i = 1, 3 do
    local zone = Zone.new(part)
    zone:bindToGroup("EnterOnlyOneZoneAtATime")
end

settingsGroups currently only contain one property, onlyEnterOnceExitedAll (which defaults to true), although can be customised in the future with ZoneController.setGroup.

Behaviour without SettingsGroups:

Behaviour with SettingsGroups:

@LordMerc @Maxx_J This helps overcome the problems you both mentioned a few months back. I’ve updated the playground examples to now include this.

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5. It’s time to disappear…

You can now snap zones out of workspace with the new relocate method:

zone:relocate()

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

This is also accompanied with a new constructor, Zone.fromRegion, enabling the construction of zones without any containers/baseparts:

local zoneCFrame = CFrame.new()
local zoneSize = Vector3.new(3000, 3000, 3000)
local zone = Zone.fromRegion(zoneCFrame, zoneSize)

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6. Additional

• By default, Zones will now only check the Centre of characters (i.e. their HumanoidRootParts). This is because it provides performance gains and most users previously didn’t require whole-body checking. If you wish to revert back to the whole-body checking of characters, simply do:

  zone:setDetection("WholeBody")
  

• Replaced Maid with Janitor by @pobammer
• Replaced Signal with GoodSignal by @stravant

A full breakdown of API changes can be found here:

Changelog - ZonePlus

[LordMerc (Merc)]

Awesome update!
Found an unsual bug (which may or may not be roblox’s own), but it’s with the paint zone.
Video kinda speaks for itself on the issue.

[ForeverHD (Ben)]

My bad, looks like I forgot to update the paint zone at the playground! Thanks for the find, should be updated now:

[caviarbro]

May I ask if there is any improvements with zones that contains more parts? Last time I tried it, it performed really wonky.

Thanks for the amazing update keep it up Forever!

[ForeverHD (Ben)]

I made a slight fix to one of the whitelists for v3 although unless you’re making your zones out of hundreds of complex shapes there should be negligible difference to performance.

Can you expand on what you mean by wonky, and/or provide a way to reproduce the behaviour?

[caviarbro]

@ForeverHD

unless you’re making your zones out of hundreds of complex shapes there should be negligible difference to performance.

I am creating mining game and I am using zone to tag player if they’re in mine in order to calculate the depth that they’re currently on.

Video of the behavior:
Cloudfire Studio Project #3 - Roblox Studio (gyazo.com)

But as I just realized the problem is in the complex shapes, is there any chance to make something like “BoundingBox method” of all descendants, so it will ignore missing parts and just perform as a regular cube?

[Marinist]

Is there any way to set a character as a zone and use it as a hitbox? If so, what would be the best method of doing that?

Currently using raycasting for character hitboxes and I’m not too happy with it. I need to detect when characters collide with each other.

[nakata1609]

There is an error on hrp.Size in ZoneContriller due to hrp is nil. Changing FindFirstChild(“HumanoidRootPart”) to WaitForChild silenced this error

[ForeverHD (Ben)]

ZonePlus v3.2.0 | Construct dynamic zones and effectively determine players and parts within their boundaries

Probably may need some explanations that it’s suggested to keep parts in workspace. I didn’t see anything in the documentation about how Zone parts should be placed and saved. stating that ZonePlus v2 relies on the part .Touched events before checking if a player is in a Region3 etc. I was thinking that I could get away with moving Zone parts into ServerStorage since I don’t plan to use the parts with any visual effects. Is it just suggested to anchor parts, transparency 1, cancollide false …

ZonePlus v3.2.0 | Construct dynamic zones and effectively determine players and parts within their boundaries

Is it possible to do zone.new() without using parts, maybe create a zone using positions?

ZonePlus v3.2.0 | Construct dynamic zones and effectively determine players and parts within their boundaries

Having an issue around legacy tools that still use mouse.Target and mouse.Hit touching on the edges of the Zone. I’ve fixed the majority of what I can with raytracing and ignoring zone parts. Is there any plans to support not requiring zone parts inside of workspace? I believe it possibly wouldn’t be feasible because of the use of Touched events etc.

ZonePlus v3.2.0 | Construct dynamic zones and effectively determine players and parts within their boundaries

Because parts have 2048 studs size limit and I need to check even larger are than that may I ask if is there going to be an option (or is there already?) to create Zone without physical object (with CFrames and such)?

These are all now possible with zone:relocate() and Zone.fromRegion(cframe, size) the latest v3 release!

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ZonePlus v3.2.0 | Construct dynamic zones and effectively determine players and parts within their boundaries

v3.0.0 Breakdown New version, yay! 1. Goodbye RotatedRegion3, hello OverlapParams Internal Region and RotatedRegion3 checks have been entirely replaced with the new Spatial Query API. This should bring about performance gains, particularly over the long term as this API is improved. 2. You can now track anything With new Item events and methods you can now track anything. Humanoid Dummies? Check. Zombie NPCs? Check. Spaceships? Check. Pineapple Bombs? Check. First, setup your events: zo…