Direction of walk

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1

How do I figure out the direction in which a npc will start moving towards? Like say I have a vector3 position, and I want to figure out the orientation of the direction of where the npc will move to. Thanks - BMWLux

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2

If you get the npc’s humanoidrootpart’s lookvector, you should get what you need.

3

Yeah but like i’m checking before he starts walking. Therefore its not in the direction of where he is walking.

4

You mean like?

local function GetMovementDirection()
	if math.round(HRP.Velocity.Magnitude) > 0 then
		return HRP.CFrame.LookVector
	end
end
5

If you want to find the direction character is walking, use Humanoid.MoveDirection
If you want to find the direction character is looking, use Character:GetPivot().LookVector

6

Wouldn’t the NPC rotate automatically? Try setting the RootPart’s LookVector to the position.

7

You can use CFrame.lookat, do:
local Direction = CFrame.lookat(Character.PrimaryPart.Position, Goal ector3Here).LookVector

GoalVector3Here must be replaced with your vector3 that the npc will walk to. I use “PrimaryPart” because that gets the HumanoidRootPart of the character. (if you set the primarypart correctly) After that I just get the lookvector of that cframe which is just the direction with a magnitude (length) of 1.

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