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How do I make a pathfinding NPC that will follow a player smartly?
So what I want to do is make a smart killing npc that can go through doors and follow the player without jumping into a wall for the whole game.
I have everything down except how to make the npc focus on a player not a block or another NPC
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First we need to find the nearest person.
Example:
01 | local vecPoint = workspace.NPC.Humanoid.Position |
02 | local closestPlayer, smallestMagnitude = nil,math.huge |
03 |
04 | for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do |
05 | local distance = player:DistanceFromCharacter(vecPoint) |
06 | if distance < smallestMagnitude then |
07 | smallestMagnitude = distance |
08 | closestPlayer = player |
09 | end |
10 | end |
Boom, we did it. Now we want the player to go the Player.
Script Example:
1 | NPC.Humanoid:MoveTo(player.Character.Humanoid) |
Final script:
01 | game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player) |
02 | player.CharacterAdded:connect(function(character) |
03 | if character then |
04 | local function movetonpc() |
05 | local vecPoint = workspace.NPC.Humanoid.Position |
06 | local closestPlayer, smallestMagnitude = nil,math.huge |
07 |
08 | for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do |
09 | local distance = player:DistanceFromCharacter(vecPoint) |
10 | if distance < smallestMagnitude then |
11 | smallestMagnitude = distance |
12 | closestPlayer = player |
13 |
14 | NPC.Humanoid:MoveTo(player.Character.Humanoid) |
15 | end |
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You forgot to check if the player has a character at all! “It returns 0 if the player has no Player.Character”, meaning the smallest magnitude is of the player who has no character ankurbohra 681 — 5y
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You are so right, I will edit that. raid6n 2196 — 5y
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there we go raid6n 2196 — 5y
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Thank you so much for the help! Au_Naturel -26 — 5y
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-1 he asked for a pathfinding way, meaning using pathfinding service, you are using MoveTo nievadev 112 — 4y