RenderStepped or check Touched

[blazing wasp]

I’ve set up a custom prompt system, and I’m wondering which method is better in terms of performance or practicality.
One approach uses RenderStepped to check every frame for each object in a hardcoded directory:

RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    local closestEntry, _ = getClosestPrompt()
    if closestEntry then
       interactFrame.Visible = true
       textInfo.Text = closestEntry.Action or "Placeholder"  
    else
       interactFrame.Visible = false
    end
end)

The other approach checks whether a part is touched, like detecting if the player is within a prompt's max reach (e.g., the red circle).
I have no idea how the framerate would be affected if there are around 1,000 objects that require custom prompts — such as NPCs, harvestable spots, etc.

[viscid fossil]

Pretty sure you can customize a prompts looks

This would lag your game out

By a bunch

[blazing wasp]

So i need to add Prompt to every object? Cause Tagged everthing, like Talk, collect etc. so if i go near a object its shows instead of PlaceHolder the Tag, The Tag gets created by script for a set folder

[viscid fossil]

You can also just run a for loop trough every object

[blazing wasp]

for what?

[viscid fossil]

For loop?

[blazing wasp]

loop what

[viscid fossil]

For i, v in table do

Do you not know what a for loop is

[blazing wasp]

i mean what does the loop check, The RenderStepped checks the distance of every object so it knows when to show the GUI

[low stream]

Is your custom prompt similar to roblox's proximity prompt

[viscid fossil]

Create a folder with all the items, clone the special prompt in the script and add it to all the models in the for loop

[stray river]

** You are now Level 11! **

[viscid fossil]

🔥

[blazing wasp]

its a Textbox that is shown when im near the model

[viscid fossil]

Prompt.style = enum.proximitypromptstyle.custom

[low stream]

Is it being used just to show texts or used to interact

[viscid fossil]

Yeah but renderstepped will lag it out if your gonna use it for hundreds of objects

[viscid fossil]

Oooh

Under there?

[low stream]

use roblox's proximity prompt, set it to custom and use prompthidden/shown event

[blazing wasp]

but the roblox Prompt hovers over the object and rotates with the camera i want it to be static like i did with the GUI

[low stream]

you can do the same

[viscid fossil]

Just make one renderstepped and loop trough all the parts and make it appear if one of them is within like 10 studs (and make sure to break the loop then)

[blazing wasp]

but does it know when to run? if it just run once?

[viscid fossil]

Yh