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untold sun
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why didn't u show it running in real time so we could see the actors

scarlet tide
untold sun
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thats what actors are for tho

scarlet tide
scarlet tide
untold sun
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very cool good job :)

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are you accounting for overlaps/already filled tiles?

scarlet tide
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then i do this 💀

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untold sun
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u want pro tip

scarlet tide
untold sun
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when you are comparing distances and you don't actually care about the distance itself you only care about it's relative value you can use square magnitude
which looks like this:

local v = Vector2Position - Vector2.new(At.X, At.Z)
local sqareMag = v:Dot(v)
local isInCircle = squareMag <= halfRenderDistance^2
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its wayy more efficient because it skips the square root function that Magnitude uses

scarlet tide
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whoa math

untold sun
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i can explain the math if u want too

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but it boils down to v:Dot(v) is equivalent to the inside part of the distance function

scarlet tide
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i wont get a single thing

untold sun
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you underestimate yourself

scarlet tide
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code died 💀

untold sun
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you know how distance =√((x2 – x1)² + (y2 – y1)²)

scarlet tide
untold sun
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v:Dot(v) = v.X^2 + v.Y^2 and v is already the difference between the two vectors
(x2 – x1)² + (y2 – y1)²

scarlet tide
untold sun
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so it just does the inner part of it

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can i see what you originally had on the full IsInCircle line

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you cut off a part of it

scarlet tide
untold sun
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ah i didn't see that part

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yeah good job

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faster

scarlet tide
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also the memory increases a lot when generating (would eventually stack up to a gigabyte) should i eventually with time remove old chunks?

untold sun
scarlet tide
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but since i cant initialize it as nil

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i put it in a table

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later on i find that model and put the model to that table

scarlet tide
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that findfirstchild isnt the best but it is the easiest for me currently

untold sun
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storing models is pretty space efficient actually so you should be fine there I think it's fine just probably because you're creating so many parts at once

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yeah converting to a string and using findfirstchild could probably be improved upon

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also find a way to not use pairs

scarlet tide
scarlet tide
untold sun
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yes

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significantly

scarlet tide
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ipairs and pairs?

untold sun
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yes

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ipairs much faster than pairs

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and when you're doing it a lot it makes a difference

scarlet tide
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also my current way of checking if a given space is already occupied is just indexing it, would using table.find be better

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or is there any alternatives

untold sun
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indexing is fine

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its the fastest

scarlet tide
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well i cant index it if i dont have the index 💀

untold sun
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what are you using for an index

scarlet tide
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the snapped position of the chunk

untold sun
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thats fine then

scarlet tide
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converted to vector3

untold sun
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you can just get the close by grid snapped points

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and use them as indexes

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which should be pretty fast to get

scarlet tide
untold sun
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like get nearby vector2 values and check if they're occupied

scarlet tide
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is that not what im doing?

untold sun
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you're going through already generated chunks tho? maybe im confused

scarlet tide