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Unusual Move To Behaviour?

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I've been trying to make an NPC move towards two mapped points using MoveTo(). It works fine though instead of going straight to the appropriate point it goes a few steps before it.

Since I'm not the most elegant person when it comes to explaining something I'll just show the DIY code (which to me seems fine?).

local list = {"P1", "P2", "P3", "P4", "P5"}
local npc = game.Workspace.NPC.Humanoid

local i = 1

npc:MoveTo(workspace.Nodes:FindFirstChild(list[i]).Position)
i = i + 1
npc.MoveToFinished:wait()
npc:MoveTo(workspace.Nodes:FindFirstChild(list[i]).Position)

Any help would be much appreciated.

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Your code is fine; this is a "feature". To work around this, you can either adjust the points so that they are a little bit beyond where you want the NPC to stop, or you can do that automatically in your loop:

local list = {"P1", "P2", "P3", "P4", "P5"}
local npc = game.Workspace.NPC.Humanoid
local head = npc.Parent.Head
local gap = 2 -- change this to however many studs the NPC stops away from your destination

for i = 1, #list do
	local point = workspace.Nodes[list[i]].Position
	local dir = (point - head.Position).unit -- the direction the NPC will move to get to your point
	point = point + dir * gap -- this compensates for the "feature"
	npc:MoveTo(point)
	npc:MoveToFinished:Wait()
end
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