How can I make my bot/ai open doors?

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#1

Hey!

Im currently making a piggy styled game and I have a bot, the bot cannot open doors and thats kinda unfair, because the plays always win and they cant get the experience of getting chased yk. I have no idea on how to make this, so is there a door model that the ai/bot can open or what? Thank you for whoever gives me a answer! And I know very little about scripting so, a video or a explanation would help!

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#2

I mean you can technically make a detection system with a Touched() event that opens a door, and closes the door behind it when a TouchEnded() event is ran, but I don’t know if that’s 100% the best option for your scenario.

#3

You can make a sensor block in front of the door or you can just put a script in the door that basically runs a script that when a certain part touches the sensor the CanCollide property is set to false, let me know if you need help writing the script itself.

#4

You could try constantly checking for doors within a certain range and opening them if they are closed and inside that range. But this will look strange if a player keeps opening a door and the script simultaneously opens it.

local PointA = Position
local PointB = Door.Position
local Distance = (PointA - PointB).Magnitude
local Range = 10

if Distance >= Range then
    -- Close door.
end

-- Do note that you'll have to, of course, constantly repeat this process. Which will not be very good performance-wise
-- And this is a very minimal representation. You better off look for scripts in tracking NPCs to learn this better.
#5

If your using pathfinding service you’ll have to have the doors CanCollide off on the server and have them CanCollide on on the client.

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#6

The way how MiniToon makes his bots are simple, the doors in the server side are actually non-collidable while on the client, it’s collidable. With this advantage, the bot can go through places where the part has CanCollide false, and when the door touched a bot, it will play the animation and the door sound.

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#7

I’m working on making a pathfinding module that will allow you to select what parts to include or ignore (like the doors). Hopefully it’ll be ready for you soon, you can watch the development here: Polaris-Nav