how do i make these collisions not happen

[finite ingot]

i have a system that gets buildings and puts them in random positions but what what if the buildings are colliding against eachover?

[steep plover]

consider this: https://discord.com/channels/448986884497211392/1360256018940035203

[finite ingot]

ty

[finite ingot]

how does getparts in part work and how is it used for what im trying to do

[steep plover]

hmm, your case would have to work a bit different

you'd want to generate a part/the hitbox of the building you're GOING to build, and then check if any buildings already exist inside it (using GetPartsInPart)

[finite ingot]

im using findfirst ancestors but it says it expects a string but got a table

oh nvm

got it

i need the name of the part im using

it isnt working right now

i dont know why

[steep plover]

any errors, or what is it doing rn?

[finite ingot]

ill send the script and a screenshot

output is clear btw

[steep plover]

show your new code?

[finite ingot]

distancing is the white box around the house

ive never used getparts in part and im not familiar with find first ancestor

[steep plover]

dw, shouldnt be hard to fix

FindFirstAncestor is just as it says, it goes upwards through the parents until it finds one with a matching name

having a look now

ahhh okay

so, it depends on your setup

[finite ingot]

all the buildings are in a folder

if it goes through the parents and not the children

then it wont find the other models its touching

[steep plover]

yup, you got it

so, maybe use something else

[finite ingot]

so i use getdescentants?

on the folder

[steep plover]

either the building name with FindFirstAncestor, or just do if part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Distancing")

latter seems cleaner

[finite ingot]

latter.?

[steep plover]

the 2nd option of what i just said

[finite ingot]

oh ok

i got script timeout using the second option

[woven smelt]

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[finite ingot]

any solutions to that?

i think ive had it once

before but i dont know anything about it

[steep plover]

hm

you shouldnt have

one min

[finite ingot]

the part is inside the model

im confused

because when you do part.parent

its essentially just searching its self

[steep plover]

ahhhh true, my bad

youll need to exclude it

you can do that with OverlapParams

can you paste your code here

instead of screenshotting

ill edit if you like, should work

[finite ingot]

ok

wait

how do i copy and paste it like how you did in the other thread

lemme show a example

[robust nymph]

why ping me

[finite ingot]

mb

my fault

[steep plover]

do that

anyway dw

local Map = workspace:WaitForChild("Map")
local Buildings = Map:WaitForChild("Buildings")



local function randomizeposition(Building)
    local X = math.random(-400,400)
    local Z = math.random(-400,400)

    local RandomOrientation = math.random(1,360)

    Building:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(X,1, Z) * CFrame.Angles(0, math.rad(RandomOrientation), 0)) -- move 20 studs in the y-axis from the origin and rotate 45 degrees in the y-axis

    local params = OverlapParams.new()
    params.FilterType = Enum.FilterType.Blacklist
    params.FilterDescendantInstances = {Building.Distancing}

    local parts = workspace:GetPartsInPart(Building.Distancing,params)

    local CollisionFound = false
    for _, part in parts do
        if    part.Parent:FindFirstChild("Distancing") then

            print("found collision")
            CollisionFound = true

            break
        end
    end

    if CollisionFound then
        randomizeposition(Building)
        print("Building Had Collision With Other Building.Relocating Building")
    end
end
for i,Model in pairs(Buildings:GetChildren()) do
randomizeposition(Model)

end

added 'params' and adjusted the 'local parts = ' segment

[finite ingot]

there

[steep plover]

nice

but also dont worry i edited already

above

[finite ingot]

oh k

[steep plover]

basically just added a blacklist to it

but, im not sure if thats the main problem if you were getting a script timeout

unless there's just not any space for the new building, which would cause that!

just increase the x and z

[finite ingot]

ok

oh yeah your right

[steep plover]

wooooo

works now?

[finite ingot]

the capacity of it is 400

[steep plover]

yee

[finite ingot]

but the distancing is 100

i added 10 testing houses

for the scripting

ill do that now

uhh

still got script timeout

i dont know how

found collision (x1622)

[steep plover]

it's always colliding?

seems odd

lower the number of houses

[finite ingot]

ok

it keeps timing out a taround 1600 to 1700 collisions

then doesnt work

OH

MY BAD

ive got it now

[steep plover]

what was it lol

[finite ingot]

i didnt copy and paste the script u did

i didnt see it

i was afk for a few minutes

nvm that was a lie

i responded 1 minute after

im just slow

isnt blacklist deprecated

yeah they are

they were deprecated

[woven smelt]

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[finite ingot]

until recently they were deleted

they were replaced with exclude/include

im gonna try that instead

[steep plover]

oh yes, mb

should function the same tbh

[finite ingot]

fixed it

[steep plover]

goated

gj

[finite ingot]

if u dont know blacklist is now RaycastFilterType.Exclude

i think

[steep plover]

yesss indeed

i thought it was the other way around with which are deprecated

[finite ingot]

ohh ok

this is done now

i guess i got the complicated stuff down