earlier i posted a Question on teleporting and asked "Does the place your teleporting to need to be active" and i got the answer, but how do games like Speed Run 4 and Phantom Forces have different maps without teleporting the player ?
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Multiplace game help ?
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These games do not use multiple places. They simply load the maps in by cloning data and extracting the children into a specific directory in Workspace.
For example:
local maps={ --Make an array to store all of the maps you want to load
game.ReplicatedStorage.map1;
game.ReplicatedStorage.map2;
}
local mDir=game.Workspace.Map --Directory in the workspace, in which the map would be contained
function loadMap(id) --A function to load the map
mDir:ClearAllChildren() --Erase any previously existing map.
local id=id or math.random(1,#maps) --Define the mapID if not manually defined
local n=0 --Anti lag number
for _,c in pairs(maps[mid]:GetChildren()) do --For loop to get the contained map objects
n=n+1 --Add to our magic number
c:Clone().Parent=mDir --Clone the part into the map directory
if n % 2 == 0 then game:GetService("RunService").Stepped:wait() end --If n is even then yeild, this is to not freeze up when cloning a map with a ton of children
end
end
loadMap() --This would load a random map
loadMap(2) --This would load map2
Sources: math.random, Modulus operator (%), Clone, for in pairs, Get children, Clear all children
I think I know what you mean and it's also pretty simple.
One common way is too, put all your parts into a model and then have that model stored inside ServerStorage or Lightning. When you got this setup then you can simply just use a script that removes the model inside workspace and then clone of the maps from where we located them.
If you have more models inside the storage area than your maps use my method where I add a BoolValue inside of the model and I often name it "isMap".
Something like this for example
local storage = game:GetService("ServerStorage") --access ServerStorage or Lightning if you use that
local storageItems = storage:GetChildren() --return the children of storage in a table
local maps = {} --here all of the maps will be stored so we can find a ranomd map
local currentmap --placeholder for the map in use
for i, v in pairs (storageItems) do --loop through all storageItems
if v:IsA("Model") and v:FindFirstChild("isMap") then --we check if object "v" is a model and if it got isMap inside of it, so we know for sure it's a map
table.insert(maps, #maps + 1, v ) --table.insert got three arguments, first one is which table you want to add something into, the second one is where in the table(if it would be in one, two and so on), in this case, we put it according to how many maps is stored inside of the table. So if zero maps are inside of it insert our object in the first slot (0+1). The third one represents the object which will be inserted.
end
end
function newMap()
if currentmap ~= nil then --checks if there is a map in use
currentmap:ClearAllChildren() --clear the map in use
end
local randomMap = math.random(1,#maps) --pick a random number according to how many maps you got
local mapClone = maps[randomMap]:Clone() --clone a random map
mapClone.Parent = game.workspace -- put it in workspace.
currentmap = maps[randomMap] --assign the map in use
end
newMap() --execute the function
Sources: Function, Math.random, GetChildren, Table, table.insert, Clone, For loop, in pairs
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Hey, Thanks so much !!
No problem! If you have any questions on how things work, just ask!