How to implement the new path finding service parameters?
It was earlier today when I found out about roblox's new pathfinding service perimeters: Wiki Page and I wanted to tinker with it, but being the idiot I am, I could not figure out how. On the wiki page, it says it's a function of "PathfindingService", and "PathfindingService" is a function which you call like this:
local pathfindingService = game:GetService("PathfindingService")
so I was puzzled as to how to implement the new parameters into it. I obviously can't go and do this:
local pathfindingService = game:GetService("PathfindingService","AgentCanJump" = false)
so how would I pass these parameters in?
1 answer
PathfindingService, as it's name suggests, is a service of Roblox. You retrieve this service by using the :GetService() function.
local pathfindingService = game:GetService("PathfindingService")
With the above, we can now access the functions that this service provides like :CreatePath(). This function creates a new path object for us to use and has an optional argument. This argument must be a dictionary with the properties you'd like to set.
--You don't need to put all parameters in this dictionary:
local pathParams = {
AgentHeight = 5, --default
AgentRadius = 3, --default is 2
AgentCanJump = false --default is true
}
Available parameters can be seen here.
We can then pass this dictionary into our :CreatePath() function.
local pathfindingService = game:GetService("PathfindingService")
local pathParams = {
AgentHeight = 5,
AgentRadius = 3,
AgentCanJump = false
}
local newPath = pathfindingService:CreatePath(pathParams)
You now have the ability to use the functions under newPath since we used :CreatePath() to make a path object.
Let me know if you need something explained or if I had missed anything.
References:
- Pathfinding -See functions and examples
- Tables - See dictionaries