Hey there!
I've been bored out of my mind with this whole "Not having a job due to quarantine thing" & have been messing around with Perlin noise in generating terrain. I've got it working pretty nicely, looking spectacular if I may say!
Now, to expand upon the question, which is not yet asked: How do I load in chunks seamlessly without causing colossal lagspikes? So far my code is using for loops per dimension size to load in the first starting chunk (I found the initial code in a YouTube video, and thus I have expanded upon it for a cleaner terrain generation). I generate the seed using math.random(0, 10000000) for... randomness. Now, I can't just simply load in a whole new chunk because this method is using thousands of blocks per chunk, which would cause immense lag. So I was thinking of despawning around 10 blocks behind the user and 10 in front per increment. But I still have no way of knowing how to do this.
If you have any question please let me know! Code is below.
game.ReplicatedStorage.RemoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function()
local n = tick()
for _,v in pairs(workspace.TerrainG:GetChildren()) do v:Destroy()end
local mapxsize = 100
local mapysize = 40
local mapzsize = 100
local seed = math.random(0,10000000)
local noisescale = 50
local amplitude = 20
local blocksize = 3
local lastBlock
for x=0,mapxsize do
for z = 0,mapzsize do
for y=0,mapysize do
if y == mapysize then
local lastPart = Instance.new("Part")
lastPart.Material = Enum.Material.SmoothPlastic
lastPart.Anchored = true
lastPart.Size = lastBlock.Size
lastPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(lastBlock.Position.X, lastBlock.Position.Y + blocksize, lastBlock.Position.Z)
lastPart.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Bright green")
lastPart.Parent = workspace.TerrainG
local treeblock = math.random(1, 1000)
if treeblock == 12 then
local tree = game:GetService("ReplicatedFirst").Tree:Clone()
tree:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(lastPart.Position))
tree.Parent = workspace.TerrainG
end
local rockblock = math.random(1, 1000)
if rockblock == 12 then
local rock = game:GetService("ReplicatedFirst").Rock:Clone()
rock:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(lastPart.Position.X, lastPart.Position.Y + 1, lastPart.Position.Z))
rock.Parent = workspace.TerrainG
end
local grassblock = math.random(1, 50)
if grassblock == 12 then
local grass = game:GetService("ReplicatedFirst").Grass:Clone()
grass:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(lastPart.Position.X, lastPart.Position.Y + 2, lastPart.Position.Z))
grass.Parent = workspace.TerrainG
end
else
local xnoise = math.noise(y/noisescale,z/noisescale,seed) * amplitude
local ynoise = math.noise(x/noisescale,z/noisescale,seed) * amplitude
local znoise = math.noise(x/noisescale,y/noisescale,seed) * amplitude
local density = xnoise + ynoise + znoise + y
if density < 20 and density > 10 then
if density <= 19 and density > 10 then
local rand = math.random(1, density)
if rand == 3 then
local part = Instance.new("Part")
part.Material = Enum.Material.SmoothPlastic
part.Anchored = true
part.Size = Vector3.new(blocksize,blocksize,blocksize)
part.CFrame = CFrame.new(x*blocksize,y*blocksize,z*blocksize)
part.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Dark stone grey")
part.Parent = workspace.TerrainG
lastBlock = part
end
end
local part = Instance.new("Part")
part.Material = Enum.Material.SmoothPlastic
part.Anchored = true
part.Size = Vector3.new(blocksize,blocksize,blocksize)
part.CFrame = CFrame.new(x*blocksize,y*blocksize,z*blocksize)
part.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Brown")
part.Parent = workspace.TerrainG
lastBlock = part
elseif density < 10 then
local part = Instance.new("Part")
part.Material = Enum.Material.SmoothPlastic
part.Anchored = true
part.Size = Vector3.new(blocksize,blocksize,blocksize)
part.CFrame = CFrame.new(x*blocksize,y*blocksize,z*blocksize)
part.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Dark stone grey")
part.Parent = workspace.TerrainG
lastBlock = part
end
end
end
end
end
local m = tick()-n
print(m)
end)