thank you for this godsend of a tutorial and algorithm. its still procedural and yet im still able to build preset rooms, easy to adapt, and your tutorial is informative. definitely using this for my own roguelite, and ill recommend this to others if needed. you earned yourself a subscriber
Working on something similar, except I plan to have the rooms connect each other instead of using hallways. Did not expect to find a roblox tutorial, great job! :D
Thank you for the tutorial, was able to change things where i needed to change them and ultimately got exactly the type of dungeon generator i needed, god bless your soul 🙏
Script :- local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage") local AssetFolder = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Asset") local function Generate(StartingPosition,Maxrooms)
local CurrentRoomGenerated = 0
local function Branchout(Model:Model) wait() if Model:GetAttribute("Room") == false then
for i,v in pairs(Model:GetChildren()) do if v:IsA("BasePart") and v.Name == "Waypoints" then local NewPosition = v.Position + v.CFrame.LookVector * 4.25 local CheckBox = Instance.new("Part", game.Workspace.Debris) CheckBox.Anchored = true CheckBox.Size = Vector3.new(7.5,4,7.5) CheckBox.Position = NewPosition local partsInCheckBox = game.Workspace:GetPartsInPart(CheckBox) CheckBox:Destroy() if #partsInCheckBox > 0 or CurrentRoomGenerated >= Maxrooms then v.Transparency = 0 v.Material = Enum.Material.WoodPlanks v.Color = Color3.new(0.588235, 0.403922, 0.4) else local NewTilePiece = AssetFolder:GetChildren()[math.random(1, #AssetFolder:GetChildren())]:Clone() NewTilePiece.Parent = game.Workspace.Dungeon local cf = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(NewPosition.X, StartingPosition.Y, NewPosition.Z), v.Position) NewTilePiece:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(cf) cf = CFrame.new(NewTilePiece.PrimaryPart.Position) * CFrame.Angles(math.rad(0), math.rad(NewTilePiece.PrimaryPart.Orientation.Y), math.rad(NewTilePiece.PrimaryPart.Orientation.Z)) NewTilePiece:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(cf) if NewTilePiece:GetAttribute("Room") == true then CurrentRoomGenerated += 1 end coroutine.wrap(Branchout)(NewTilePiece) v:Destroy()
@@____________________________x Or you could've just followed the tutorial and taken only 30 minutes. Hate to say it but actually good games come from effort.
Once i heard AI voice I was gonna switch to another video, but you explained this perfectly and in a clean way, I got so fed up of those AI content creators that spread pure bullshit. But you're far from that, you earned a subscriber.
Hey y'all, if you're having trouble with generating rooms and it tends to bug out having weird rotations, make sure to make all the primary parts of every room ( except the starting room ) face the direction of the empty waypoint direction ( starting room just faces the direction of the waypoint )
@c00lbaconn what controls the empty spaces is the courotine.wrap(branchout) function, if all of the preset rooms are in the right order it should work as intended because it still generates them all the exact same way, aligning to the orientation of the openings in the hallways
Very clean and simple system for dungeon generation, though I have to ask, what's plug-in you use for tracking how many studs you scale/move a part with in the video? Appreciate you sharing your work, and am looking forward to future videos!
oh my god dude you won't believe how long i've been looking for a tutorial like this. similar to how lethal company generates it's rooms. thank you so much dude lmao
I haven't finished the tutorial yet but it says SetPrimaryPartCFrame() is deprecated 6:05 so instead I'm using Model:Pivot() which is the same thing. Also from what I've seen you can put most of this in a module script
Yeah SetPrimaryPartCFrame() and Model:Pivot() is the same thing. It Just that I'm Used to using SetPrimaryPartCFrame(). And yeah you can use module script but i didn't wanted to make this more complicated.
Thanks for trying to respond to everyones comments, thats really nice! I wanted to ask you how much did you practice to get to this level of scripting?😅
@@TextChange How old are you, im asking because im curious about if school stopped you from learning scripting sometimes, because of homework study or other things😅
@@oleNikolic I recently graduated from college. you don't need to script 24 hours a day. usually I scripted only for 2~3 hour a day. just think it as playing game.
Hey I have a request for you, can you explain wave function collapse algorithm to make random generation of a map? You do a lot of effort on your videos, thanks for making these videos.
@@TextChange Thank you for accepting my request, it will do a lot of help, I can't thank you enough, you made my day. It would be appreciated if you make the terrain like this czcams.com/video/PTwqUfjFsac/video.htmlsi=gpckP_Rwxp5XTUJ- . If you don't know about it or have no idea then you can get an idea with this czcams.com/video/MyMbbmWVCDw/video.htmlsi=1aoECPQRC0nua9E0 . Please help me if you could, my clueless brain can't figure out how to start.
@@TextChange Thank you for accepting my request, it will do a lot of help, I can't thank you enough, you made my day. It would be appreciated if you make the terrain like this czcams.com/video/PTwqUfjFsac/video.htmlsi=gpckP_Rwxp5XTUJ- . If you don't know about it or have no idea then you can get an idea with this czcams.com/video/MyMbbmWVCDw/video.htmlsi=1aoECPQRC0nua9E0 . Please help me if you could, my clueless brain can't figure out how to start.
Pretty nice, and very fast. Btw, how could I go about having "specialty" rooms, ensuring that they are always placed somewhere in each dungeon? Like if I were to have say, a shop, and I wanted to make sure each dungeon has a shop. Of course I could just make it so the generation will check if it has placed a "shop" room already or not, and if yes, then exclude the shop from the usable tile pool, but otherwise it's entirely up to the mercy of RNG if a shop room is chosen. Then at the end of generation, if it sees that no shop room was placed, it'll regenerate the dungeon, repeating until it successfully places a shop. Now this will "work", but it's definitely not ideal, and becomes an exponentially bigger problem the more "special" rooms that are desired. Since if there's only 1 specialty tile, chances are the dungeon will end up having it. But if there's say, 5 specialty rooms I want each dungeon to always have somewhere in their layout, there's a much bigger chance one of them gets missed and the entire dungeon will need to regenerate. And it may be possible the dungeon will need to regenerate a dozen times, leading to a long wait time for players.
@@fearlesswee5036 here what you could try. Once all rooms are generated, list all rooms that have the same number of waypoints as your shop room. For example, if your shop room has 4 waypoints, find all rooms with 4 waypoints. Randomly pick one from this list and replace it with your shop room. If you want to have more then one shop room then repeat these steps in a for loop. It is still not ideal, because it is still dependent on RNG. Lets say you want 3 shop room (shop room has 4 doorways) But there are only 2 rooms with 4 doorways. You see the problem now? How to fix it? Instead of making special rooms, you should have your shop as a separate model. Now you can just select a random room from the dungeon and position your shop in that room. It is fast and easy method
@@TextChange Well the "shop" would be a defined room, for a special layout + set dressing. I plan to use large 100 stud tiles to have a lot of room for the room/hallway layout to deviate. So like a 4-way intersection might not be a straight path, but have more twists/turns. I didn't even think of placing them *after* the dungeon generates; finding a random 4-way room for example and replacing it with the special room. That's very smart. I could also probably use this to put an "exit" or "end room" for the dungeon, using a basic magnitude check to exclude room tiles too close to the start. Thanks for taking the time to respond and the tutorial!
@@TextChange would love to learn how to do this for procedural dungeons. even a dungeon series tutorial would be awesome since there aren’t any on youtube.
Could you make a V2 of this tutorial that explains how to make a procedurally generated dungeon or city (whatever) with rooms of varying scales and roads of different sizes? Like you could have a room of 12x18 or 6x8 and roads of 8x3 or 15x3
he said in another reply you can achieve this by making the tile as big as your biggest room size, then make a bunch of halls that look like multiple smaller halls combined
Make the room number value equal to math.huge. But this will cause roblox to crash. And if you want to have 2 room adjacent to each other, then just copy the hallway generation method
@@the_actual_alex yeah it it possible. It will be a little hard work, so bare with me. First thing you need to do to make your room. And place it somewhere else. And then after generation process is complete, you have to make a table/array of all the room with the same amount of doorways as your intended room. For example, Let's say your intended room has 2 door ways. So you will make a table of all the room with 2 doorways that were generated. Now choose a random room from that array and replace it with your intended room. There are many other ways to do it. But this was the first thing thar came in my mind
i love this tutorial, please keep making more of these, using and explianing the terms was also very nice, also how do you add Z levels to a system like this?
Hallways are overlapping with the rooms and becoming quite messy. There are also times they spawn under the map and rotated. do you have an idea on what the problem is?
What did you do? 😂 the overlapping is happening because you scaled up asset. After scaling you need to follow this part 6:35. And i don't know why they are spawning under the map and rotated
@@TextChangets no longer overlapping, I put the primary part to the floor instead of the actual middle of the room so my bad. I'll try to experiment around in the angles to fix it. Thanks for the tutorial
for some reason when mine runs it generates the start room and a part that is put in the debris folder and i think its supposed to be the checkpart but it appears under my starting room and like close to the primary part's x & z coords. im getting no errors and idk what i did wrong. ive set all my primary parts and waypoints to the correct direction and made sure they have the right names. Ive called all the functions and done basically everything said in any other reply under this video. is there something i missed with the checkbox part of the video or is it something else?
Maybe you messed up the coordinates. It is really hard to say what is wrong with your code. Maybe you should try the model i have provided in the description.
How long did it take you to learn from scratch to this level of advanced lua scripting? It’s honestly amazing, I’m currently learning lua and I started a week ago, for now I only know the keywords, I have no idea how I can use this stuff I’m learning 💀
Well, without any information it is really hard to tell what is wrong with your model. But i assume you have different size rooms. This is a problem because this system wasn’t created to handle room with different size. You have to make sure that your all rooms are same size
Hey do you have a discord or something? This tutorial is so cool but it's hard to make my own world generation based off this because I'm not sure how to limit it's reach or anything... would love to speak to you about it
There is already a limit to how many rooms will be generated. At the very bottom of the script where the generate function is being called. The 2nd parameters is the number of rooms you want to be generated. Liking and subscribing is highly appreciated
Yo great video man this really helped me out, how would i go about adding varying room sizes for example a big hall room (For players to fight in) and multiple starting rooms that connect to each other with in the dungeon?
Heres some idea! Your tile size and checkbox size should be same as the biggest room. Now make smaller room and in the doorway try adding some parts so that the doorways match when rooms and hallways are placed side by side.
I found this video really informative and helpful! I'm new to Lua and Roblox Studio, and I was testing your script with some custom rooms I built, and I'm getting an error I don't know how to fix. Upon running the game only the starting room generates, and I get this error message: Model:SetPrimaryPartCFrame() failed because no PrimaryPart has been set, or the PrimaryPart no longer exists. Please set Model.PrimaryPart before using this. I will note that I trimmed your code to remove all the mentions of the 'room' boolean attribute because my game is trying to generate only rooms, no halls. Is there something obvious I'm likely missing or is there something I could try?
@@TextChange Thank You! That fixed one of the many bugs lol. I just assumed the part had to be named PrimaryPart and I didn't see that you had changed the property in the video. Again, thanks for this amazing tutorial!
is there a way to make it choose through different types of dungeons? like different colors of walls and floors, and maybe like make the rooms and hallways be restricted to a big box like zone?
Of course, after all possibilities are endless! it may not completely satisfy your needs, here are some ideas to consider. To confine dungeon generation within a specific area, you can implement a check during room spawning to ensure the chosen coordinates fall within the designated zone. For instance, let's designate an area within 200 studs from the origin (0,0) in each direction. When spawning a room, verify if the selected coordinate satisfies the conditions: (Vector3.X = -200) and (Vector3.Z = -200). If these conditions are met, proceed with generating the room; otherwise, transform the waypoint segment into a wall. (Assuming you're referring to themed dungeons like jungle or desert) Now, for different types of dungeons, organize themed rooms and hallways into separate asset folders. For instance, create a folder named 'Jungle' containing jungle-themed assets exclusively. Then, introduce a string value (let's name it "themevalue") to determine the appropriate asset folder dynamically. Here's an example: local assetFolder = ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild(themevalue.Value) I hope this guidance proves helpful! If you found it useful, consider showing support by liking the video and subscribing to my channel-it truly motivates me.
@@reduvicemaster 😅 People often use the code without understanding it, then mess it up and complain that it doesn't work. It's a sarcastic way of saying, 'Just take the code and get out'. If you take a look at the comments on this video, you will understand what i mean.
8:41 at the bottom, when calling the generate function, the second parameter is the maxrooms. As this was a kind of advance tutorial, i assumed people would get it easily
How would I make it so I can have different sizes of rooms? Like what if I have a REALLY long hallway, but also a really small hallway? I tried doing the size thing but that doesn't seem to work at all.
You can do it if you can somehow make it possible so that Every rooms and hallways can be placed adjacent to each other. I really can't explain it to you without a separate video.
is there a work around for the room amount becoming too low? I've once gotten rooms in a 2x2 because they ended up connecting that way even though the max amount of rooms was around 1000 and I really would like for this not to happen.
Try the model i have provided in the description. I had solved that problem after the video was released. And i didnt bother mentioning. Sorry about that
I'm a bit late to this as well as new to coding. This tutorial is fire and easy to follow, however I am having trouble with the StartingPosition in which I'm getting an error message "Model:SetPrimaryPartCFrame() failed because no PrimaryPart has been set, or the PrimaryPart no longer exists. Please set Model.PrimaryPart before using this." Anyone know what could be up?
@@TextChange Oh my god thank you so much I get it now!! Your a genius with setting that to the pivot and thank you for pointing that out as I completly missed that part.
I got the starting room to spawn but nothing else spawned around it. I saw that there were two scripts, one in workspace called, "Script" and one in Replicated First called "Nothing is here" which do I put the code in? Is anything supposed to be unanchored?
@@imButterGuy In our generation process, waypoints are crucial. If there are no waypoints in the workspace, the generation of rooms or hallways can’t continue. Waypoints help us know where to place new rooms and keep the generation going. So make sure all the room in your asset folder has at least one waypoint.
@@glitch8442 I already have a max room limit on my system. (Please watch the full video. I worked hard on it man 😭😭) And for your second request. here is what you could do. Once all rooms are generated, list all rooms that have the same number of waypoints as your special room. For example, if your special room has 4 waypoints, find all rooms with 4 waypoints. Randomly pick one from this list and replace it with your special room. Repeat this until you have the desired number of special rooms in the dungeon.
i keep getting starting room errors. my primarypart is in the middle of the room. I tried taking yours and upscaling it and yet it still does not work. Any fix?
man i even copied the exact code from the comments after typing it all out myself and it still didn't work for me, only generated the starting room and then gave nothing in the output console
Well there are many ways this can be done. But the simplest way is to place something(like a part) Where you don't want to generate the rooms. Because when the algorithm check for occupancy it will detect the part and will not generate there anymore. But this can be really annoying because its has to done manually.
I got the script to work now. But for some reason, nearly all waypoints are turned into dead ends. Even if it isn't a dead end. Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?
Hello, I noticed a slight difference between the video and the Place that you left under the video. In this place, your PrimaryPart is invisible and does not exist as a child object in the room. Do I have to do this in my Place? I just don’t know how, because you didn’t specify this in the video
Is the generation broken in the model that i provided? Anyway if there aren’t any PrimaryPart in any of the room and hallway the kindly make one as shown in the video. Being invisible or not does not matter
yo dude, I have the same problem yet I did set the primary part per room and hallway, yet it doesnt generate anything except the starting room@@thegamerthatdoestsuff
what if in a scenario one of the hallways have a waypoint that directly points towards the starting room, and as it already reached a max rooms limit it would try to generate a shop room INSIDE the starting room. is there a way to prevent this?
@@drlssteam I forgot to mention it in the video. But here is the quick explanation. When we start generating rooms or hallways, a timer called 'last generated' records the time when the last room was made. Each time we create a new room, we update this timer to the current time. We use a loop that keeps running until all rooms are generated. Inside the loop, we check the time elapsed since the last room was made. If more than 5 seconds have passed and the desired number of rooms hasn't been generated, it means something went wrong, and we start the process again.
You can edit anyway how ever you want. Just make the entry points lineup when placed side by side. Also they can not exceed the average room size ( in this case 8 studs by 8 studs
It is happening because the script thinks that there is something on the way and rooms cant be generated. The easy solution is that you check if all waypoint part are facing the right wasy.
Model link :- drive.google.com/file/d/1uaZZTuW1vrR6kcmrKNPkPLxEUbhVvkUP/view?usp=drive_link
Can you update it so it infinitely load, like Chunks in Minecraft
@@Nemazares Just go down to the last line and replace 500 with math.huge
@@indominusvoids8798 math.huge ? Alr ig thx
@@indominusvoids8798 No it's a bad idea because it will cause the game to crash.
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thank you for this godsend of a tutorial and algorithm. its still procedural and yet im still able to build preset rooms, easy to adapt, and your tutorial is informative. definitely using this for my own roguelite, and ill recommend this to others if needed. you earned yourself a subscriber
Thank you
np
i love rougelikes. is the game out yet?
Thank you. This was fun to follow along and procedural generation has so many possibilities.
Thank you
This is so well explained, but at the same time you make sure to not overly exlapain it, please make more tutorials i loved this
We want more videos like this, keep up the amazing work. Hats off this guy!
Working on something similar, except I plan to have the rooms connect each other instead of using hallways. Did not expect to find a roblox tutorial, great job! :D
im trying to make just rooms aswell but nothing is really happening
i was stuck at figuring how to do pikmin2-like dungeon generation and this helps a ton thanks!!
Thank you for the tutorial, was able to change things where i needed to change them and ultimately got exactly the type of dungeon generator i needed, god bless your soul 🙏
Script :-
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local AssetFolder = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("Asset")
local function Generate(StartingPosition,Maxrooms)
local CurrentRoomGenerated = 0
local function Branchout(Model:Model)
wait()
if Model:GetAttribute("Room") == false then
for i,v in pairs(Model:GetChildren()) do
if v:IsA("BasePart") and v.Name == "Waypoints" then
local NewPosition = v.Position + v.CFrame.LookVector * 4.25
local CheckBox = Instance.new("Part", game.Workspace.Debris)
CheckBox.Anchored = true
CheckBox.Size = Vector3.new(7.5,4,7.5)
CheckBox.Position = NewPosition
local partsInCheckBox = game.Workspace:GetPartsInPart(CheckBox)
CheckBox:Destroy()
if #partsInCheckBox > 0 or CurrentRoomGenerated >= Maxrooms then
v.Transparency = 0
v.Material = Enum.Material.WoodPlanks
v.Color = Color3.new(0.588235, 0.403922, 0.4)
else
local NewTilePiece = AssetFolder:GetChildren()[math.random(1, #AssetFolder:GetChildren())]:Clone()
NewTilePiece.Parent = game.Workspace.Dungeon
local cf = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(NewPosition.X, StartingPosition.Y, NewPosition.Z), v.Position)
NewTilePiece:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(cf)
cf = CFrame.new(NewTilePiece.PrimaryPart.Position) * CFrame.Angles(math.rad(0), math.rad(NewTilePiece.PrimaryPart.Orientation.Y), math.rad(NewTilePiece.PrimaryPart.Orientation.Z))
NewTilePiece:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(cf)
if NewTilePiece:GetAttribute("Room") == true then
CurrentRoomGenerated += 1
end
coroutine.wrap(Branchout)(NewTilePiece)
v:Destroy()
end
end
end
else
local possibleHallways = {
AssetFolder:WaitForChild("Hallway1");
AssetFolder:WaitForChild("Hallway2");
AssetFolder:WaitForChild("Hallway3");
AssetFolder:WaitForChild("Hallway4");
AssetFolder:WaitForChild("Hallway5");
}
for i,v in pairs(Model:GetChildren()) do
if v:IsA("BasePart") and v.Name == "Waypoints" then
local NewPosition = v.Position + v.CFrame.LookVector * 4.25
local CheckBox = Instance.new("Part", game.Workspace.Debris)
CheckBox.Anchored = true
CheckBox.Size = Vector3.new(7.5,4,7.5)
CheckBox.Position = NewPosition
local partsInCheckBox = game.Workspace:GetPartsInPart(CheckBox)
CheckBox:Destroy()
if #partsInCheckBox > 0 or CurrentRoomGenerated >= Maxrooms then
v.Transparency = 0
v.Material = Enum.Material.WoodPlanks
v.Color = Color3.new(0.588235, 0.403922, 0.4)
else
local NewTilePiece = possibleHallways[math.random(1,#possibleHallways)]:Clone()
NewTilePiece.Parent = game.Workspace.Dungeon
local cf = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(NewPosition.X, StartingPosition.Y, NewPosition.Z), v.Position)
NewTilePiece:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(cf)
cf = CFrame.new(NewTilePiece.PrimaryPart.Position) * CFrame.Angles(math.rad(0), math.rad(NewTilePiece.PrimaryPart.Orientation.Y), math.rad(NewTilePiece.PrimaryPart.Orientation.Z))
NewTilePiece:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(cf)
if NewTilePiece:GetAttribute("Room") == true then
CurrentRoomGenerated += 1
end
coroutine.wrap(Branchout)(NewTilePiece)
v:Destroy()
end
end
end
end
end
local StartingRoom = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("StartingRoom"):Clone()
StartingRoom.Parent = game.Workspace.Dungeon
StartingRoom:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(StartingPosition))
CurrentRoomGenerated +=1
Branchout(StartingRoom)
end
Generate(Vector3.new(0,10,0),500)
you couldve published this and made the game uncopylock
you should at least give some effort and follow the tutorial. It would only take 30 minutes to make anyway.
@@____________________________x Or you could've just followed the tutorial and taken only 30 minutes. Hate to say it but actually good games come from effort.
Why did you use "SetPrimaryCFrame" Instead of "SetPivot"?
@@____________________________xyou could've just copied a 10 minute tutorial WITH the script published in the comments
I actually love this video, everything was just perfectly crafted 🤩
this guy is a chad, i love how he explains it keep it up!
Thank you
True
It was beatiful watching that map generate in such a clean way
Once i heard AI voice I was gonna switch to another video, but you explained this perfectly and in a clean way, I got so fed up of those AI content creators that spread pure bullshit. But you're far from that, you earned a subscriber.
Highly appreciate your support. 🖤
thanks for the tutorial! gonna make some little guys and enemies to go through a mini dungeon and have them make their way to the end randomly
Glad I could help!
Underrated video, TTS with well typed explanation was great
Roblox tutorials are underrated in general but this tutorial is VERY underrated.
Hey y'all, if you're having trouble with generating rooms and it tends to bug out having weird rotations, make sure to make all the primary parts of every room ( except the starting room ) face the direction of the empty waypoint direction ( starting room just faces the direction of the waypoint )
@c00lbaconn what controls the empty spaces is the courotine.wrap(branchout) function, if all of the preset rooms are in the right order it should work as intended because it still generates them all the exact same way, aligning to the orientation of the openings in the hallways
3:07 you can do fn + left click or alt+ left click to select a single part from a model
Good to know. Thank you
also you coud use random:NextInteger instead of math.random if you want pesudorandom generation@@TextChange
btw you didnt have to make 11 presets you coudve gone with 2. with the same result@@TextChange
this is perfect tutorial for people who starting off scripting but have only learnt the basics, hope you make more videos
Very clean and simple system for dungeon generation, though I have to ask, what's plug-in you use for tracking how many studs you scale/move a part with in the video?
Appreciate you sharing your work, and am looking forward to future videos!
I Didn't use any plugin, it was there by default.
Thank you man ! Great tutorial
oh my god dude you won't believe how long i've been looking for a tutorial like this. similar to how lethal company generates it's rooms. thank you so much dude lmao
I haven't finished the tutorial yet but it says SetPrimaryPartCFrame() is deprecated
6:05
so instead I'm using Model:Pivot() which is the same thing. Also from what I've seen you can put most of this in a module script
Yeah SetPrimaryPartCFrame() and Model:Pivot() is the same thing. It Just that I'm Used to using SetPrimaryPartCFrame(). And yeah you can use module script but i didn't wanted to make this more complicated.
Man, you are the best! Subbed. Happy New Year Mate. 🎉☺️
Happy new year!
Thanks for trying to respond to everyones comments, thats really nice! I wanted to ask you how much did you practice to get to this level of scripting?😅
@@oleNikolic I'm doing script for 3 years now. Just take easy and slow, you will reach my place in no time.
@@TextChange How old are you, im asking because im curious about if school stopped you from learning scripting sometimes, because of homework study or other things😅
@@oleNikolic I recently graduated from college. you don't need to script 24 hours a day. usually I scripted only for 2~3 hour a day. just think it as playing game.
I wish there was a video like this but for just normal unity
Although it relies on some krutches, this is an interesting concept of generating!
Great tutorial, and I've been looking for this for so long! I would just recommend a different voice...
i like your pfp
@@suupe4453 thanks! i love yours, it’s very original
its a great heavily customizable inexpensive system really cool man
Thank you. Consider subscribing
Hey I have a request for you, can you explain wave function collapse algorithm to make random generation of a map? You do a lot of effort on your videos, thanks for making these videos.
I would try my best. Thank you
@@TextChange Thank you for accepting my request, it will do a lot of help, I can't thank you enough, you made my day.
It would be appreciated if you make the terrain like this czcams.com/video/PTwqUfjFsac/video.htmlsi=gpckP_Rwxp5XTUJ- . If you don't know about it or have no idea then you can get an idea with this czcams.com/video/MyMbbmWVCDw/video.htmlsi=1aoECPQRC0nua9E0 . Please help me if you could, my clueless brain can't figure out how to start.
@@TextChange Thank you for accepting my request, it will do a lot of help, I can't thank you enough, you made my day.
It would be appreciated if you make the terrain like this czcams.com/video/PTwqUfjFsac/video.htmlsi=gpckP_Rwxp5XTUJ- . If you don't know about it or have no idea then you can get an idea with this czcams.com/video/MyMbbmWVCDw/video.htmlsi=1aoECPQRC0nua9E0 . Please help me if you could, my clueless brain can't figure out how to start.
Pretty nice, and very fast. Btw, how could I go about having "specialty" rooms, ensuring that they are always placed somewhere in each dungeon? Like if I were to have say, a shop, and I wanted to make sure each dungeon has a shop.
Of course I could just make it so the generation will check if it has placed a "shop" room already or not, and if yes, then exclude the shop from the usable tile pool, but otherwise it's entirely up to the mercy of RNG if a shop room is chosen. Then at the end of generation, if it sees that no shop room was placed, it'll regenerate the dungeon, repeating until it successfully places a shop.
Now this will "work", but it's definitely not ideal, and becomes an exponentially bigger problem the more "special" rooms that are desired. Since if there's only 1 specialty tile, chances are the dungeon will end up having it. But if there's say, 5 specialty rooms I want each dungeon to always have somewhere in their layout, there's a much bigger chance one of them gets missed and the entire dungeon will need to regenerate. And it may be possible the dungeon will need to regenerate a dozen times, leading to a long wait time for players.
@@fearlesswee5036 here what you could try.
Once all rooms are generated, list all rooms that have the same number of waypoints as your shop room. For example, if your shop room has 4 waypoints, find all rooms with 4 waypoints. Randomly pick one from this list and replace it with your shop room. If you want to have more then one shop room then repeat these steps in a for loop.
It is still not ideal, because it is still dependent on RNG. Lets say you want 3 shop room (shop room has 4 doorways) But there are only 2 rooms with 4 doorways. You see the problem now? How to fix it?
Instead of making special rooms, you should have your shop as a separate model. Now you can just select a random room from the dungeon and position your shop in that room.
It is fast and easy method
@@TextChange Well the "shop" would be a defined room, for a special layout + set dressing. I plan to use large 100 stud tiles to have a lot of room for the room/hallway layout to deviate. So like a 4-way intersection might not be a straight path, but have more twists/turns.
I didn't even think of placing them *after* the dungeon generates; finding a random 4-way room for example and replacing it with the special room. That's very smart. I could also probably use this to put an "exit" or "end room" for the dungeon, using a basic magnitude check to exclude room tiles too close to the start.
Thanks for taking the time to respond and the tutorial!
only 21 subscribers? you deserve way more
HOLY COW YOU ARE SO UNDERATED! 100% Subbing.
Hey what should I do if there are two empty spaces with no waypoints? Also sometimes the rooms aren't on the same y level
Now you have to do another one where it’s a chunk loader that saves and unrenders/renders chunks!
@@PoppinCorn That's a great Idea.
@@TextChange would love to learn how to do this for procedural dungeons. even a dungeon series tutorial would be awesome since there aren’t any on youtube.
Very good tutorial, Subbed!
Could you make a V2 of this tutorial that explains how to make a procedurally generated dungeon or city (whatever) with rooms of varying scales and roads of different sizes? Like you could have a room of 12x18 or 6x8 and roads of 8x3 or 15x3
he said in another reply you can achieve this by making the tile as big as your biggest room size, then make a bunch of halls that look like multiple smaller halls combined
Ah thank you for doing my job 😅. I really appreciate that
How do I make the generation infinite and allow the situations when there are 2 rooms connected with each other?
Make the room number value equal to math.huge. But this will cause roblox to crash.
And if you want to have 2 room adjacent to each other, then just copy the hallway generation method
Could someone help me with making certain waypoints connect the map into a loop
this is so good! just one question, is it possible to add other rooms that also spawn just one time in random positions?
@@the_actual_alex yeah it it possible. It will be a little hard work, so bare with me.
First thing you need to do to make your room. And place it somewhere else. And then after generation process is complete, you have to make a table/array of all the room with the same amount of doorways as your intended room. For example, Let's say your intended room has 2 door ways. So you will make a table of all the room with 2 doorways that were generated. Now choose a random room from that array and replace it with your intended room.
There are many other ways to do it. But this was the first thing thar came in my mind
@@TextChange 🙏
i love this tutorial, please keep making more of these, using and explianing the terms was also very nice, also how do you add Z levels to a system like this?
Maybe make diagonal hallway that will work as a staircase. That should do it
WE'RE CREATING THE BINDING OF ISAAC IN ROBLOX WITH THIS ONE
Good luck
So is this how poeple make there doors game random?
Hallways are overlapping with the rooms and becoming quite messy. There are also times they spawn under the map and rotated. do you have an idea on what the problem is?
What did you do? 😂 the overlapping is happening because you scaled up asset. After scaling you need to follow this part 6:35. And i don't know why they are spawning under the map and rotated
@@TextChangets no longer overlapping, I put the primary part to the floor instead of the actual middle of the room so my bad. I'll try to experiment around in the angles to fix it. Thanks for the tutorial
for some reason when mine runs it generates the start room and a part that is put in the debris folder and i think its supposed to be the checkpart but it appears under my starting room and like close to the primary part's x & z coords. im getting no errors and idk what i did wrong. ive set all my primary parts and waypoints to the correct direction and made sure they have the right names. Ive called all the functions and done basically everything said in any other reply under this video. is there something i missed with the checkbox part of the video or is it something else?
Maybe you messed up the coordinates. It is really hard to say what is wrong with your code. Maybe you should try the model i have provided in the description.
How long did it take you to learn from scratch to this level of advanced lua scripting? It’s honestly amazing, I’m currently learning lua and I started a week ago, for now I only know the keywords, I have no idea how I can use this stuff I’m learning 💀
Im actually script for some years, keep it up and you will be a advance scripter in no time
It seems the code breaks when I apply it to my own rooms with bigger and more complex sizes. Any fix for this?
Well, without any information it is really hard to tell what is wrong with your model. But i assume you have different size rooms. This is a problem because this system wasn’t created to handle room with different size. You have to make sure that your all rooms are same size
Amazing tutorial!
I think I got a jumpscare from the captions
How?
Great tutorial!
Cool, but how to make spots in rooms with random objects spawn there like paintings on walls and otheres
Hey do you have a discord or something? This tutorial is so cool but it's hard to make my own world generation based off this because I'm not sure how to limit it's reach or anything... would love to speak to you about it
My channel isn’t so big, so i never considered about discord or anything. Maybe in the future.
backrooms bout to be crazy
i’m actually making a backrooms game using this lol
Nice Tutorial! I was just wondering if you know how to make a limit on how many rooms are generated. Please & thank you.
There is already a limit to how many rooms will be generated. At the very bottom of the script where the generate function is being called. The 2nd parameters is the number of rooms you want to be generated.
Liking and subscribing is highly appreciated
Yo great video man this really helped me out, how would i go about adding varying room sizes for example a big hall room (For players to fight in) and multiple starting rooms that connect to each other with in the dungeon?
Heres some idea! Your tile size and checkbox size should be same as the biggest room. Now make smaller room and in the doorway try adding some parts so that the doorways match when rooms and hallways are placed side by side.
@@TextChange thank you for the help ill try implement that now!
I found this video really informative and helpful! I'm new to Lua and Roblox Studio, and I was testing your script with some custom rooms I built, and I'm getting an error I don't know how to fix. Upon running the game only the starting room generates, and I get this error message: Model:SetPrimaryPartCFrame() failed because no PrimaryPart has been set, or the PrimaryPart no longer exists. Please set Model.PrimaryPart before using this.
I will note that I trimmed your code to remove all the mentions of the 'room' boolean attribute because my game is trying to generate only rooms, no halls. Is there something obvious I'm likely missing or is there something I could try?
you forgot to set the "Primarypart" property of you rooms. make sure to follow these steps 1:10
@@TextChange Thank You! That fixed one of the many bugs lol. I just assumed the part had to be named PrimaryPart and I didn't see that you had changed the property in the video. Again, thanks for this amazing tutorial!
hey i know this video is old, but how do i get that thing where your mouse tells you where on a part you are.
@@didist9065 I actually don't know. It was there by default.
is there a way to make it choose through different types of dungeons? like different colors of walls and floors, and maybe like make the rooms and hallways be restricted to a big box like zone?
Of course, after all possibilities are endless! it may not completely satisfy your needs, here are some ideas to consider.
To confine dungeon generation within a specific area, you can implement a check during room spawning to ensure the chosen coordinates fall within the designated zone. For instance, let's designate an area within 200 studs from the origin (0,0) in each direction. When spawning a room, verify if the selected coordinate satisfies the conditions: (Vector3.X = -200) and (Vector3.Z = -200). If these conditions are met, proceed with generating the room; otherwise, transform the waypoint segment into a wall.
(Assuming you're referring to themed dungeons like jungle or desert)
Now, for different types of dungeons, organize themed rooms and hallways into separate asset folders. For instance, create a folder named 'Jungle' containing jungle-themed assets exclusively. Then, introduce a string value (let's name it "themevalue") to determine the appropriate asset folder dynamically. Here's an example:
local assetFolder = ReplicatedStorage:FindFirstChild(themevalue.Value)
I hope this guidance proves helpful! If you found it useful, consider showing support by liking the video and subscribing to my channel-it truly motivates me.
its a good tutorial but i think its a little to fast because sometimes i have to slow down the video to 0.25 a second for some parts
Im really sorry about that. I had to speed up the video because it was getting too long
Super super nice strategy.
what real chads do is learn
That's true
@@TextChange then why did you say "be a chad and copy & paste the script" in the video
@@reduvicemaster 😅 People often use the code without understanding it, then mess it up and complain that it doesn't work. It's a sarcastic way of saying, 'Just take the code and get out'. If you take a look at the comments on this video, you will understand what i mean.
@@TextChange but it's good to learn. I'm not talking further anymore now
I had this same question. Chads are people that understand what they do fully.
good tutorial! but i have a problem, the starting room is generating but not the rest of the room's how can i fix this?
i forgot to say that there's no errors
Make sure you rotated the waypoint and primarypart to face the correct direction. Also check if you called the branchout function
Thanks Alot! it works.
thx bro! i love u!!)
An issue is you never put where to specify Maxrooms. Now infinite rooms are generating and I can't cap it.
8:41 at the bottom, when calling the generate function, the second parameter is the maxrooms. As this was a kind of advance tutorial, i assumed people would get it easily
Thank u so much
How would I make it so I can have different sizes of rooms? Like what if I have a REALLY long hallway, but also a really small hallway? I tried doing the size thing but that doesn't seem to work at all.
You can do it if you can somehow make it possible so that Every rooms and hallways can be placed adjacent to each other. I really can't explain it to you without a separate video.
is there a work around for the room amount becoming too low? I've once gotten rooms in a 2x2 because they ended up connecting that way even though the max amount of rooms was around 1000 and I really would like for this not to happen.
Try the model i have provided in the description. I had solved that problem after the video was released. And i didnt bother mentioning. Sorry about that
It was a good tutorial but the scripting was going to fast personally and i got lost mid way...
I managed to get it to work and it works beautifully
I'm really sorry about that. the video was getting too long for a tutorial.
This is impressive indeed
0:44 hallways and rooms look a little small... I'm assuming from that time mark I commented, that the space is 4 blocks wide?
Well 1 stud is roughly 1 foot lol
Yes I already said it in the video, it is even smaller then a player
How to make it bigger?
do you know of a way to create unique rooms? (like have only one boss room in the entire dungeon)
I'm a bit late to this as well as new to coding. This tutorial is fire and easy to follow, however I am having trouble with the StartingPosition in which I'm getting an error message "Model:SetPrimaryPartCFrame() failed because no PrimaryPart has been set, or the PrimaryPart no longer exists. Please set Model.PrimaryPart before using this." Anyone know what could be up?
you forgot to set the 'PrimaryPart' property for your starting room. here, follow this 1:49
@@TextChange Oh my god thank you so much I get it now!! Your a genius with setting that to the pivot and thank you for pointing that out as I completly missed that part.
How would i be able to script it so it would connect to a part already in the map like a checkpoint to the next area?
Sorry man. This dungeon is designed to be random. I don't know how to do that
I got the starting room to spawn but nothing else spawned around it. I saw that there were two scripts, one in workspace called, "Script" and one in Replicated First called "Nothing is here" which do I put the code in? Is anything supposed to be unanchored?
You might have forgot to call the branchout function. Replicated storage's script is the previous script that i tested and its disabled.
@@TextChange how would i call out that function? What code at what line
@@gaminwbdcheck description or new pin comment😊
This video was awesome but I'd like to use it for more future games. can you please turn this into a free model? That would me very much appreciated!
Check description or new pin comment
Hi i just remodeled the models and when they generate the room without a waypoint (Room1) keeps it from finishing and it resets Can you help?
@@imButterGuy In our generation process, waypoints are crucial. If there are no waypoints in the workspace, the generation of rooms or hallways can’t continue. Waypoints help us know where to place new rooms and keep the generation going. So make sure all the room in your asset folder has at least one waypoint.
could this theoretically be repurposed for a constant generation of tiles infront os something like a vehicle that move backwards
Sorry, Didn't understand what you meant
"you own version"
'Your own version' 😅
How would I make it possible to put a set amount of rooms in the dungeon whilst also having specific rooms limited to another set number?
@@glitch8442 I already have a max room limit on my system. (Please watch the full video. I worked hard on it man 😭😭)
And for your second request. here is what you could do.
Once all rooms are generated, list all rooms that have the same number of waypoints as your special room. For example, if your special room has 4 waypoints, find all rooms with 4 waypoints. Randomly pick one from this list and replace it with your special room. Repeat this until you have the desired number of special rooms in the dungeon.
@@TextChange ty
why does the first local cf changes at 8:13???
@@eggtart2gud first one positions rooms, and 2nd one makes sure rooms are not tilting
chatgpt description is crazy😭😭😭
i keep getting starting room errors. my primarypart is in the middle of the room. I tried taking yours and upscaling it and yet it still does not work. Any fix?
Maybe starting room Isn't in the replicated Storage.
Without the error massage i can't understand what might be the problem
@@TextChange sorry i forgot to give it you the error message is just running(x4)
retrying and the door will just be blocked
man i even copied the exact code from the comments after typing it all out myself and it still didn't work for me, only generated the starting room and then gave nothing in the output console
Try the model provided in the description and in the pin comment.
@@TextChange alright I will, hopefully it works because I love the idea
I’m very confused on how to scale up these rooms and hallways, because every time I do, it breaks the generation.
When you scale up make sure to you calculated the distance of the waypoint and primarypart
@@TextChange so sorry for asking but is it possible to add custom textures/decals to the walls and floors? The script breaks easily whenever I try to
im just trying to use this for a never ending road with occasoinal burger kings lol
😆 good luck with that
Can you tell me the plug in or setting used to show the stud / size when scaling a part?
how do i fix where the rooms do not generate at all (except starting room)
Well there are many ways this can be done. But the simplest way is to place something(like a part) Where you don't want to generate the rooms. Because when the algorithm check for occupancy it will detect the part and will not generate there anymore. But this can be really annoying because its has to done manually.
I got the script to work now. But for some reason, nearly all waypoints are turned into dead ends. Even if it isn't a dead end. Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?
If you still have that problem then you can get the model now. Link is in the description and in the pin comment
Hello, I noticed a slight difference between the video and the Place that you left under the video. In this place, your PrimaryPart is invisible and does not exist as a child object in the room. Do I have to do this in my Place? I just don’t know how, because you didn’t specify this in the video
Is the generation broken in the model that i provided? Anyway if there aren’t any PrimaryPart in any of the room and hallway the kindly make one as shown in the video. Being invisible or not does not matter
@@TextChange Actually no, everything works as expected, I just noticed this little thing, I thought it affects something
hey can you tell my why when i create my own rooms with the exact same scripts and everything it says "attempted to index nil with Position"
when i try to find the distance
maybe you forgot to set the room's "PrimartPart" property. Make your you have the primarypart and waypoint part where they need to be.
@@TextChangeI just resized, remodeled, and retextured your builds and adjusted the distance manually between them so W
Awesome tut man! however, after following everything it only generates the starting room, and thats it
Check again. You might have forgot to call the branchout function.
@@TextChange ill carefully check again, even copied in your code from the comment down below. same result.
ill trace my steps, perhaps my room names or something are off
@@TextChange Found it, forgot to set primary part per room and hallway...oops
yo dude, I have the same problem yet I did set the primary part per room and hallway, yet it doesnt generate anything except the starting room@@thegamerthatdoestsuff
Brilliant
what if in a scenario one of the hallways have a waypoint that directly points towards the starting room, and as it already reached a max rooms limit it would try to generate a shop room INSIDE the starting room. is there a way to prevent this?
What? I don’t know what are you talking about. But if you are concerned about room overlapping then don't worry. This system will not overlap rooms.
How did you prevent self loops that stops the generation?
@@drlssteam I forgot to mention it in the video. But here is the quick explanation.
When we start generating rooms or hallways, a timer called 'last generated' records the time when the last room was made. Each time we create a new room, we update this timer to the current time. We use a loop that keeps running until all rooms are generated. Inside the loop, we check the time elapsed since the last room was made. If more than 5 seconds have passed and the desired number of rooms hasn't been generated, it means something went wrong, and we start the process again.
PLEASE TEACH US HOW TO MAKE LARGE ROOM
Well select all the rooms and hallways scale it to the size you want. Then follow this 6:30
How can i modify the corridoor and room safely
You can edit anyway how ever you want. Just make the entry points lineup when placed side by side. Also they can not exceed the average room size ( in this case 8 studs by 8 studs
@@TextChange Ur the best
for some reason waypoints do the walls thing for no reason
It is happening because the script thinks that there is something on the way and rooms cant be generated. The easy solution is that you check if all waypoint part are facing the right wasy.
@@TextChange ah ok, also lets say i wanted it to generate stair cases or anything that changes elevation, how would i do that?
@@grandpas-stuff well stairs are like hallways. Just make the hallways elevate.
@@TextChange ah ok, thank you so much
@@TextChange hi i found a bug where they won't stop generating i will send my code if you would like
how would oyu mkae this into a round system so every round theres a new dungeon
@@sticker1000 everytime you need a new dungeon, clear the folder(delete everything in the folder that holds rooms and hallways) and call the function