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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How do I make a pathfinding NPC that will follow a player smartly?
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First we need to find the nearest person.
Example:
local vecPoint = workspace.NPC.Humanoid.Position
local closestPlayer, smallestMagnitude = nil,math.huge
for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
local distance = player:DistanceFromCharacter(vecPoint)
if distance < smallestMagnitude then
smallestMagnitude = distance
closestPlayer = player
end
end
Boom, we did it. Now we want the player to go the Player.
Script Example:
NPC.Humanoid:MoveTo(player.Character.Humanoid)
Final script:
game.Players.PlayerAdded:connect(function(player)
player.CharacterAdded:connect(function(character)
if character then
local function movetonpc()
local vecPoint = workspace.NPC.Humanoid.Position
local closestPlayer, smallestMagnitude = nil,math.huge
for _, player in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
local distance = player:DistanceFromCharacter(vecPoint)
if distance < smallestMagnitude then
smallestMagnitude = distance
closestPlayer = player
NPC.Humanoid:MoveTo(player.Character.Humanoid)
end
end
end
while wait(.01) do
movetonpc()
end
end
end)
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
You are so right, I will edit that.
there we go
Thank you so much for the help!
-1 he asked for a pathfinding way, meaning using pathfinding service, you are using MoveTo