- What do you want to achieve? A smooth teleportation with the NPC to the player.
- What is the issue? Once the script changes the NPC’s position, it starts to “glitch” and the pathfinding doesn’t work after that.
- What solutions have you tried so far? Several discord servers & google.
So, I’m basically trying to make a slenderman AI type of system where after a given amount of seconds, it attempts to teleport to a player after chasing the player for a while. The only problem is that when the NPC teleports to the player, it starts to “glitch”, act weird, and the pathfinding path just stops working. I’ve went to several discord servers, but people keep ignoring me and nothing pops up for me on google. Can anyone help me?
-->> VARIABLES <<--
local replicatedStorage,pathFindingService,players = game:GetService('ReplicatedStorage'),game:GetService('PathfindingService'),game:GetService('Players')
local settingsAISettings = replicatedStorage.SlendermanAISettings
local canTeleport,teleportDiff,frontTeleportDiff,teleportEveryMax = settingsAISettings.CanTeleport,settingsAISettings.TeleportDiff,settingsAISettings.FrontTeleportDiff,settingsAISettings.TeleportEveryMax
local slenderman = script:FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA('Model')
local previousDestination
local teleportCooldown,teleportCooldownConnection = 0,nil
local path,waypoints,currentWaypoints = nil,{},0
local teleportWait = false
-->> LOCAL-FUNCTIONS <<--
local function calculateDistance(character: Model)
return (slenderman.PrimaryPart.Position - character.PrimaryPart.Position).Magnitude
end
local function getClosestPlayer()
local closestPlayer,distanceRange = nil,math.huge
for _,player in players:GetPlayers() do
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()
if (character) then
local calculatedDistance = calculateDistance(character)
if (calculatedDistance < distanceRange) then closestPlayer = character end
end
end
return closestPlayer
end
local function planPathToTarget(target)
local plannedPath: Path = pathFindingService:CreatePath()
local success,err = pcall(function()
plannedPath:ComputeAsync(slenderman.PrimaryPart.Position, target.Position)
end)
if ((not success) and (err)) then warn(err) return false end
return plannedPath
end
local function handleTeleportCooldown()
if (teleportCooldown > 0 or teleportCooldownConnection) then return end
local randomTeleportCooldownNumber = math.random(0, teleportEveryMax.Value - 15)
teleportCooldownConnection = coroutine.create(function()
for i = randomTeleportCooldownNumber, teleportEveryMax.Value, 1 do
teleportCooldown = i
task.wait(1)
end
end)
coroutine.resume(teleportCooldownConnection)
end
local function walkToDestination(index, closestPlayer)
if (waypoints[index]) then
slenderman.Humanoid:MoveTo(waypoints[index].Position)
else
previousDestination = closestPlayer
end
end
local function walkToTarget()
local function attemptTeleport(character: Model)
if (not canTeleport.Value) then return end
handleTeleportCooldown()
print(teleportCooldown)
if (teleportCooldown >= teleportEveryMax.Value) then
local randomTeleportNearNumber,randomFrontTeleportNearNumber = math.random(0, 100),math.random(0, 100)
coroutine.close(teleportCooldownConnection)
teleportCooldownConnection = nil
teleportCooldown = 0
if (randomFrontTeleportNearNumber >= frontTeleportDiff.Value) then
print('FRONT')
path = nil
waypoints = {}
currentWaypoints = 0
teleportWait = true
slenderman.Humanoid.WalkToPoint = Vector3.zero
slenderman.PrimaryPart.Position = character.PrimaryPart.Position + Vector3.new(0, 0, -7)
task.wait(5)
teleportWait = false
elseif (randomTeleportNearNumber >= teleportDiff.Value) then
print('NEAR')
path = nil
waypoints = {}
currentWaypoints = 0
teleportWait = true
slenderman.Humanoid.WalkToPoint = Vector3.zero
slenderman.PrimaryPart.Position = character.PrimaryPart.Position + Vector3.new(7, 0, 0)
task.wait(5)
teleportWait = false
end
end
end
local closestPlayer = getClosestPlayer()
if (not closestPlayer) then return end
if (not teleportWait) then
path = planPathToTarget(closestPlayer.PrimaryPart)
if ((not path) or (path.Status ~= Enum.PathStatus.Success)) then return end
waypoints,currentWaypoints = path:GetWaypoints()
path.Blocked:Connect(function()
closestPlayer = getClosestPlayer()
path = planPathToTarget(closestPlayer.PrimaryPart)
waypoints = path:GetWaypoints()
end)
attemptTeleport(closestPlayer)
walkToDestination(2, closestPlayer)
for i = 2, #waypoints do
attemptTeleport(closestPlayer)
walkToDestination(i, closestPlayer)
end
end
end
-->> SCRIPT <<--
slenderman.PrimaryPart:SetNetworkOwner(nil)
while task.wait() do
walkToTarget()
end
CanTeleport = true
FrontTeleportDiff = 30
TeleportDiff= 60
TeleportEveryMax = 30
