How can i make a looping ai

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1

hey i need help with an ai im trying to make its going to be a guard that loops around an item searching for the player but i can only make it go to one point that doesnt loop can anyone help me with making it loop around an item

2

Could you show your attempted script in making an AI?

3

You can make a folder with bunch of ordered parts and use a for loop to iterate over that folder and move to every part. You can put all that code into a function and run that function indefinitely. If the item you want the guard to loop around is in a variable position then you gotta do pathfinding to reach the item and make an algorithm to create the ordered parts around the item (using vectors ofc.) in a folder, and run the function in a loop as long as you make sure the item’s position isn’t changing…Otherwise do pathfinding again…etc… This is one way of doing it I
suppose. It can get much more complex if path was blocked or the ai got stuck you need to be able to handle these situations…

EDIT: I didn’t take into account that you gotta be searching for players, more work to add into the ai during the pathfinding and the circulation around the item.

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Here’s some pseudocode on how to do this loop:

while true do
    local target = FindTarget()

    if target then
        WalkTo(Target)
    else
        LoopThroughParts()
    end
    task.wait(.05)
end