Automated Chariot Scipt

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#1

  1. What do you want to achieve?
    I would like to be able to script a chariot to follow a custom path. (Sort of like the cars in the earth realm on royale high)

  2. What is the issue?
    I don’t know how to do that.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far?
    I’ve tried tweening the model’s position and orientation using the position and orientation of parts laid out on the path I would like the chariot to follow but this solution seems a bit clunky.
    (attached video for reference) The main issues are that 1. Tweening a welded model is turning out to be a bit glitchy and 2. I don’t think this solution will be well suited to terrain that has a gradient.

I’ve been looking on the dev forum for people working on similar models and I’ve seen raycasting and bezier curves being suggested however, I am having a hard time grasping how to use them despite reading their developer articles.

Thank you for reading! Any help is truly appreciated. :heart: Also first time post on the forum wooo!!! :partying_face:

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#2

Hi Valerie!

I have been working on something similar to what you are asking about, and Tweening models can be really choppy, but I found a fix using MoveTos.

Now I admit that this is probably not the best solution, and it’s probably really overcomplicated, but if it works, it works :slightly_smiling_face:

What I did was I welded a Roblox R15 Dummy to the car and made him invisible and remove the face decal so you can’t see him. That way we can use MoveTo() because he has a Humanoid. Then I layed out a path of parts for the car to move to. I put these parts in a folder called waypoints, labeled them 1 - 10 (How many waypoints I had), and used this script inside the dummy to move the car to each one of them:

local Dummy = script.Parent
local Waypoints = game.Workspace.Waypoints -- The folder of our parts --

wait(5) -- Wait for the game to load. --

for i, v in pairs(Waypoints:GetChildren()) do -- For each part in the Waypoints Folder --
    Dummy.Humanoid:MoveTo(v.Position) --Move the dummy to the waypoint's position--
    Dummy.Humanoid.MoveToFinished:Wait() -- wait after it is done moving to the part to prevent lag --
end

Sorry if this is confusing, but this is the way I used, and I am not too advanced in the scripting field. Hope this helps :slightly_smiling_face:

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#3

Thank you ever so! This seems pretty feasible! Will try it out asap

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