Ahoy! What I would like to make is for an npc to move to the position of the string value that is placed in the NPC. However I end up getting this error:
09:33:21.923 Workspace.NPC.Script:4: attempt to index nil with ‘Position’ - Server - Script:4
This is the setup:
Here is the script:
while true do
target = script.Parent.Target.Value
print(target)
pos = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(target).Position
script.Parent.Humanoid:MoveTo(pos)
wait()
end
Help would be appreciated!
try with this:
because you can’t say “game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(target).Position”
It still has this error
11:39:07.916 Workspace.NPC.Moveto:5: attempt to index nil with ‘Position’ - Server - Moveto:5
show me the target that is in workspace
in this screenshot I have the target which is a string value. The string’s value is what the target name should be. In my case I have a part named “E” that is in workspace so E is the value of the string.
no show me the “game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(“Target”)” not the target that is in the player the one that is in workspace
first of all is there a value that is printed when you print target if not then there is a problem assigning that value on the other hand with “MoveTo” i believe you use an intvalue not a stringvalue so you should probably change the instance “target” from a stringvalue to an intvalue
Check if target.Value is not equal to nil by using ~=
you can just use the :MoveTo() in the model and not the humanoid or anything else, ive done that before though not reccomended
Alrighty so here’s a few problems with your code. What I’m assuming you’re trying to do is add a targets name to the string value, then trying to find it in the workspace? If so, then you can try this:
If you’re target is a Model object then it obviously won’t work because Models themselves don’t actually store positions, the parts inside them do however. So if it was a rig you could use tar = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(target):WaitForChild(“HumanoidRootPart”)
Then you could use MoveTo(tar.Position)
while true do
target = script.Parent.Target.Value
print(target)
tar = game.Workspace:FindFirstChild(target)
TarPos = tar.Position
script.Parent.Humanoid:MoveTo(TarPos)
wait()
end
I hope that helped! If you have any issues, reply to moi and we’ll figure it out. If this did solve your issue then ya know what to do!
Target is a string value
Position is a vector 3 value.
You can’t do Target.Position as string values don’t have position properties, they just hold a value.
First, you need to either get three separate string values to hold the three X,Y,Z coordinates, or have them placed in one place with , or something to separate them.
Then, you have to convert each to a number value with tonumber
After this, just set the position of X, Y, Z separately.
ie
Position.X =
Position.Y =
Position.Z =
An int value is a number value I can change the instance “target” to a number.
yes target should definitely be a number because if your setting it to move to target position “moveto” only works with numbers, what sort of values have you been setting target to?
I had to do a few more things to the script and it worked, thank you!
You MUST change the integer value to a number.
Positions have decimal points after them,
However you can use things like math.floor() to round down the number value to an integer, and still use int values to store it.
I made the script work with keeping it as a string value. But thanks for the help!