How can I prevent zombies in my tower defense game from stopping for half a second at each point they go to?

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#3

Switch the goal a frame or so before they reach the goal. You might be able to use this control module which has a tested termination condition. I am also working on a more advanced pathfinder which will be building onto this controller, you can follow the progress or send feature requests here: Polaris-Nav

#4

Honestly just replace this with

hum.MoveToFinished:Wait()
#5

Unfortunately that method even fails to return sometimes… It is a very common issue developers have with the pathfinder, and why many alternatives have been made.

#6

Where? It has never failed for me.

#7

Here is one of the latest I have seen, and I have personal experience with it not working: Humanoid.MoveToFinished:Wait() Doesn't Fire Properly

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#8

try changing the network owner of the zombies to nil if you haven’t

#9

How would I do that? I can try to see if it makes a difference.

#10

loop through all the zombies and do SetNetworkOwner(nil) something like this:

for index, part in pairs(zombiesFolder:GetDescendants()) do
    if part:IsA("BasePart") then
        part:SetNetworkOwner(nil)
    end
end
#11

Instead of making a custom wait function. Just use Humanoid.MoveToFinished:Wait()

#12

Try this now this will work better

local hum = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local torso = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Torso")

local nodes = game.Workspace.Path1:GetChildren()

local targetReached = false
local function moveTo(targetPoint)
	targetReached = false
	local connection
	connection = hum.MoveToFinished:Connect(function(reached)
		targetReached = true
		connection:Disconnect()
		connection = nil
	end)

	-- start walking
	hum:MoveTo(targetPoint)
end

for _, node in ipairs(nodes) do
	moveTo(node.Position)
	
	
	repeat
		wait()
	until targetReached
end
#13

I heard that there was a bug with that though on a another post. Pretty sure you just set their network owner to nil.

#14

I’ll check it out once I’m on pc.

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#15

For my game, I clone my zombies out of replicated storage and onto the path. Would I use that script on the clones or the ones in replicated storage?

#16

i think you have to do it on the cloned zombies

#17

I feel like it would make more sense doing it on the ones in replicated storage because when they get cloned, the clones also get the effect from it.

#18

you can try both of the ways then

#19

My bad, actually it only works on the cloned zombies because you can only change it to things in the workspace

#20

It works though. Thanks a lot!

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#21

It works well on my normal enemies, but I have a giant boss and it just skips a lot of the path. Is it because of it’s speed or something?