Is it possible to make .itemEntered/.itemExited fire on every part that enters the zone?
I can’t just use the .partEntered/.partExited events because the parts that I am looking for are achored parts that have a Light (any PointLight/SurfaceLight/SpotLight), and I can’t think of a way to reliably add tracking to every part I need.
Edit, some more info:
I’m trying to make road signs glow when you drive close them, currently each sign that is tagged with “retroreflectiveSign” will get a new zone, and in that zone I want to detect each part that enters and check if that part has lights.
for _,o in pairs(CLS:GetTagged('retroreflectiveSign')) do
local newZone = ZONE.fromRegion(o.CFrame, Vector3.new(300,300,256))
-- zone size is mainly for testing, will make a better one later
local coro = nil
newZone.itemEntered:Connect(function(part)
print('part entered')
local pol = part:FindFirstChildOfClass('PointLight')
local sul = part:FindFirstChildOfClass('SurfaceLight')
local spl = part:FindFirstChildOfClass('SpotLight')
if part and (pol or sul or spl) then
print('is light')
coro = coroutine.create(TrackLight)
coroutine.resume(coro, o, part, pol, sul, spl)
end
end)
newZone.itemExited:Connect(function(part)
print('part exited')
local pol = part:FindFirstChildOfClass('PointLight')
local sul = part:FindFirstChildOfClass('SurfaceLight')
local spl = part:FindFirstChildOfClass('SpotLight')
if part and (pol or sul or spl) then
print('was light')
coro.yield()
end
end)
end
Do not use this module. A game I recently released depends on this heavily but it ended up breaking. The code is messy and does not account for errors. I had to fix many issues with it like players not being registered or detected. The regions sometimes failing to calculate causing the zone to break. I suggest to make your own using robloxs new blockcast/shapecast.
If you’re experiencing issues you’re welcome to share reproduction steps - even better submit modifications through Pull Requests via GitHub. This wrapper is actively used throughout many games which haven’t reported issues with player registration.
I know about :trackItem, I’m asking if there’s a way to simply track every item that exists in the workspace. There no good way for me to start tracking what I need to detect because the models that the lights are connected to are constantly being spawned/despawned.
ZonePlus purposely doesn’t track all workspace objects (or provide a way) because this could become expensive for games with lots of instances.
Are you able to use CollectionService to tag all parts that have lights? You could then listen for when a part with lights is added to workspace then track it for all relevant zones.
I could explore making :trackPartsWithTag() a futute update to help with this.
I find this to be a misconstrued statement. I’ve been using it since it’s came out and only had a few issues, which Ben fixed almost instantly (can check my posts on this thread for proof). I believe you’re just having user error with bad code.
I’d definitely like to introduce support for shapecasts but right now I’m too occupied with other projects and zoneplus is in a nice enough place to not need any immediate updating.
I believe the only reason TopbarPlus needed an update was to match the theme of Roblox’s new (terrible imo) “experience controls.” But yeah, an update to ZonePlus would be great.
Ive tested it hundreds of times in live servers with my alt and friends and never saw an issue with it so I thought it was working. But after seeing it stress tested when I released my game it started to fail like zoneRegion being nil even when I call the _update() method manually. I also never destroy the zones at least for the server which is what I use it mainly for. I did disconnect and reconnect events for performance. All my zone containers/parts are regular squares/blocks. Not sure what caused this issue. I tried fixing it but just ended up creating my own module.
All this, user error. You’re not specifying the code for how you made the regions, you’re disconnecting and re-connecting events which isn’t the fault of the module but user error.
This is the bug I was also getting. Its the zoneRegion failing to calculate under the _update() method. Module does not account for errors, make your own.
I’m not entirely sure if this was answered already so soz if so
I noticed that creating a new zone container in-place of a previously deleted zone would make it unusable, here’s an example
I’m basically using zoneplus in tandem with a map loading system so any help would be appreciated
zone.PlayerExited:Connect(function(player)
local players = zone.getPlayers()
if #players == 0 then
// perform task
end
end)
For some reason, on the event that there are 0 players, the above code does not perform the task in some cases. I’m not sure what case is causing it. Either a player that dies while in zone, or perhaps someone disconnecting while in the zone.
You shouldn’t call method “getPlayers()” with . because it passes first argument as self or nil if not arguments were given; so call it with : instead because it automatically passes self
I believe this was just a typo in the forum post. However, I will try again and make sure that a colon is used instead of a period. If I still run into issues, I’ll report back.
