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

Free_Br1cks · May 9, 2022, 4:43am

This looks really useful and I would be using this in my future games and projects. Thanks for providing this

TheRogueCreator · May 9, 2022, 9:43pm

First of all I’d like to say great work and thanks for making this open source! It’s been really awesome to experiment and learn from your scripts. I did also have a question in regards to making a zone disable the core roblox backpack gui. Below is what I’ve drafted up.

local Zone = require(game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage").Zone)
local ToolAreas = workspace.ToolAreas
local player = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local PlayerGui = player.PlayerGui
local tweenService = game:GetService("TweenService")

for _, container in pairs(ToolAreas:GetChildren()) do
	
	local zone = Zone.new(container)	
	-- This is called when the localPlayer enters the zone
	zone.localPlayerEntered:Connect(function()
		player.PlayerGui.SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Backpack,false)
	end)
	
	-- This is called when the localPlayer exits the zone
	zone.localPlayerExited:Connect(function()
		player.PlayerGui.SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Backpack,true)
	end)
end

I’m getting 0 Errors and 0 warnings in Script Analysis and am not sure where I’m going wrong. I’d appreciate any advice if possible.

Goldthyr · May 10, 2022, 5:03am

Can you implement this necessary feature so that we can create “small” zones within the “big mother” zone? For example, when a player enters a small zone (within the big mother zone) it exits from the big mother zone and then it enters into the small zone and when the player leaves the small zone then it leaves from the small zone and enters the big mother zone, hopefully you can understand since i didn’t find this feature in the api.

ForeverHD · May 10, 2022, 7:04am

Your code looks fine except you’re calling SetCoreGuiEnabled incorrectly:

player.PlayerGui.SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Backpack,false)

should be:

player.PlayerGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Backpack,false)

ForeverHD · May 10, 2022, 7:20am

You can achieve this with solid modelling (making sure to set the unions collision fidelity to ‘Precise’) and zone:bindToGroup:

BindToGroup

for _, container in pairs(lightingAreas:GetChildren()) do
	
	-- Construct the lighting zones and bind them to the same group to ensure that the localPlayer only enters one zone at a time
	local zone = Zone.new(container)
	zone:bindToGroup("EnterOnlyOneZoneAtATime")
	
	-- This is called when the localPlayer enters the zone
	zone.localPlayerEntered:Connect(function()
		print("Entered:", container.Name)
		tweenService:Create(lighting, TweenInfo.new(0.5), zoneLighting):Play()
	end)
	
	-- This is called when the localPlayer exits the zone
	zone.localPlayerExited:Connect(function()
		print("Exited:", container.Name)
		tweenService:Create(lighting, TweenInfo.new(0.5), defaultLighting):Play()
	end)
end

Solid Modelling

End Result

Goldthyr · May 10, 2022, 1:09pm

Ohh that’s actually smart, I didn’t think about that, Also it’s a blessing that you’re still helping people here.

Goldthyr · May 10, 2022, 1:57pm

I found a major issue with this method which is the following:

So when using union, it makes multiple hit-boxes inside and that triggers the module so many times which is inconsistent, I don’t know how you would even fix this issue, That’s what i’m concerned of
(
I used this feature to show the hit-box geometry

)

(However this bug doesn’t occur to Block shapes as it has only one geometry)

Goldthyr · May 10, 2022, 2:12pm

another example

TheRogueCreator · May 10, 2022, 2:57pm

Hey thanks for the response! But I actually am not seeing the difference between the lines I have in and what you suggested. It looks exactly the same.

What I have.

player.PlayerGui.SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Backpack,false)

What you suggested

player.PlayerGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Backpack,false)

Goldthyr · May 10, 2022, 8:12pm

I know this is how the whole module works so no need to take any action but do you have any other idea to implement my “mother zone” and “small zone”

ForeverHD · May 12, 2022, 8:56am

ZonePlus functions with spatial queries instead of hit boxes so something there doesn’t sound right. Can you share a place file which reproduces this issue of yours?

ForeverHD · May 12, 2022, 8:57am

I recommend testing with print("Entered") and print("Exited"). If that doesn’t work, feel free to share the details here. If the print statements do work correctly, I recommend asking for further help in #help-and-feedback

Goldthyr · May 12, 2022, 1:52pm

After more tests it seems that the bug can be reproduced by merging an union/a part with a negative part and setting the collision fidelity to “Precise”, now the module will leave and enter multiple times if the player moves/jumps at some point

nakata1609 · May 12, 2022, 6:55pm

The module appears to be a bit buggy (works 50% of the time) when teleporting to a region about 20k studs away from the origin with streaming enabled opportunistic enabled. Used to works fine, but something went wrong after streamingenabled was modified and oppotunistic was enabled.

ForeverHD · May 13, 2022, 8:33am

Can you send a repo place file of this as I can’t reproduce this myself

ForeverHD · May 13, 2022, 9:21am

I can’t seem to reproduce this, even when moving the test place over 100,000 studs from the origin and setting the following properties for Streaming enabled:

Are you ensuring the parts have streamed in before constructing the zones? e.g:

lightingAreas:WaitForChild("Green", math.huge)
lightingAreas:WaitForChild("Pink", math.huge)

I’ve updated the playground if you’d like to play around with this:
https://www.roblox.com/games/6166477769/ZonePlus-Playground

alex_unboxed · May 13, 2022, 12:58pm

@ForeverHD
Found a weird bug with having .playerEntered on the client. I’ve provided a video and the code used.

Basically, the zone doesn’t detect a player ( if that 1 player has died ), both players have to die in order for it to be accurately detected once again.

Zone.playerEntered:Connect(function(Player)
     print(Player)
end)

edit : the bug can not be replicated inside of roblox studio, only happens in game.

ForeverHD · May 13, 2022, 2:52pm

Thanks for your report! I’ve done some digging and it appears there were some cases with streaming which ZonePlus wasn’t accounting for. Updating the function on line 87 of the Tracker module to the following should fix this:

local function playerAdded(player)
	local function charAdded(character)
		local function trackChar()
			local hrp = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart", 0.1)
			local humanoid = character:WaitForChild("Humanoid", 0.1)
			local head = character:WaitForChild("Head", 0.1)
			if hrp == nil or humanoid == nil or head == nil then
				return
			end
			updatePlayerCharacters()
			self:update()
			for _, valueInstance in pairs(humanoid:GetChildren()) do
				if valueInstance:IsA("NumberValue") then
					valueInstance.Changed:Connect(function()
						self:update()
					end)
				end
			end
		end
		local hrp = character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
		if hrp then
			task.delay(0.1, trackChar)
		else
			character.ChildAdded:Connect(function(child)
				if child.Name == "HumanoidRootPart" and child:IsA("BasePart") then
					task.delay(0.1, trackChar)
				end
			end)
		end
	end
	if player.Character then
		charAdded(player.Character)
	end
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(char)
		charAdded(char)
	end)
	player.CharacterRemoving:Connect(function(removingCharacter)
		self.exitDetections[removingCharacter] = nil
	end)
end

I’ll deploy this change officially at a later date alongside a group of other updates.

nakata1609 · May 13, 2022, 7:49pm

My experiences were teleporting to the area instead of moving to it though, but let me try to send you something

alex_unboxed · May 14, 2022, 12:49am

Thanks, this solution works perfectly!