How do I make an NPC follow a player a certain distance back?

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Hello everyone,

humanoid:MoveTo(player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position)

So I have this code to make it so an NPC follows the player, but I don’t want it to follow them too closely. I want some space between them so it’s not like they’re zombies. Is there a way to keep the rotation facing the player with this code and follow them while maintaining x amount in studs back from them? Thanks!

[x1_EE (BucketOPaint)]

CFrame.lookAt(npcprimarypart, whattolookat) for the player facing, and I think I found a pre-existing topic that may help

How to make NPC follow player but by some studs away?

I want to have a NPC that is attempting to follow the player but only staying slightly away by a few studs, how do I do this? How I would start: humanoid:MoveTo(rootPart.Position) (humanoid for NPC, rootPart for player’s rootpart) Since humanoids won’t utilize the Y coordinate in movement, I’d safely just want to have it studs way from the X, Z coordinates but without being disorientated so that its straight at the player. I really don’t know where to start but I would guess trigonometry co…

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Thank you for your response. Unfortunately the topic you posted did not help as there were no formulas for an offset between the player and NPC. What I want is very simple- I want the same effect as

humanoid:MoveTo(player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position)

Just with an offset of x studs between the player and NPC in terms of space, but the rotation should be toward the player. Should I use LookVector for this? I know you can multiply CFrames in order to do this, but I don’t know how it works with Vectors, it doesn’t seem to work.

[iLoveGameDevelopment]

couldnt you just say humanoid:MoveTo(player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position) - 50 or something along those lines? I know the NPC wont be right behind the character but it should be able to give you some space

[4vI7 (YourLocalSkid)]

yes this would work, although you’d have to replace -50 with -Vector3.new(5,0,0) since position uses Vector3 and not just one number

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I tried doing:

humanoid:MoveTo(player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position - Vector3.new(0,0,-5)

Like you advised guys, but it’s not a great solution because it only works when you’re facing one direction, but as soon as you change to the other direction the NPC will end up 5 studs beside you instead of behind you because the z and x planes don’t change so they’re either behind you or beside you depending on where you are according to the z plane. Thanks for your answers and the help.