How do I stop my path finding from doing this

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in the screenshot it goes back and fourth between the points infront and behind it, how can I make it choose one direction to go in and find the player, how it works is it find cloest point to the player, (tehre’s raycast checks so it doesn’t use a point going through a wall) scriptL:
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local VectorPoints = {}
		
		local function CreatePoint(Offset)
			local Point = origin.Position+Offset
			
			table.insert(VectorPoints,Point)
			local p = Instance.new("Part")
			p.Anchored = true
			p.Position = Point
			p.Size = Vector3.new(.5,.5,.5)
			p.CanCollide = false
			p.CanQuery = false
			p.CanTouch = false
			p.Parent = workspace
			
			game.Debris:AddItem(p,.1)
		end
		
		
		CreatePoint(Vector3.new(5.5,0,0))
		CreatePoint(Vector3.new(-5,0,0))
		
		CreatePoint(Vector3.new(0,0,5.5))
		CreatePoint(Vector3.new(0,0,-5))
		
		
		local Closest 
		local ceckSize = 5

		for i,v in VectorPoints do
			if Closest == nil then
				Closest = v
			else
				if (destination - v).magnitude < (Closest - destination).magnitude and #workspace:GetPartBoundsInBox(CFrame.new(v),Vector3.new(ceckSize,ceckSize,ceckSize))<=0 then
					Closest = v
				end
			end
		end
		
		if Closest then
			humanoid.WalkToPoint = Closest
		end
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instead of going aroud the box it goes back and 4th

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finding cloest player (destination argument in followpath function,)

while task.wait(.05) do
		local nearestPlayer, nearestDistance
		for _,v in workspace:GetDescendants() do

			if v:IsA("Humanoid") and not v.Parent:FindFirstChild("ZombieAI") and v.Parent:FindFirstChild("Head") and game.Players:FindFirstChild(v.Parent.Name) and v.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid").Health>0 then

				local distance = game.Players:FindFirstChild(v.Parent.Name):DistanceFromCharacter(origin.Position)
				if not character or 
					distance > Range or
					(nearestDistance and distance >= nearestDistance)
				then
					continue
				end
				nearestDistance = distance
				nearestPlayer = v.Parent.Head

			end

		end

		if nearestPlayer then
			CurrentTarget = nearestPlayer
			followPath(nearestPlayer.Position)
			if origin:GetNetworkOwner()~=game.Players:FindFirstChild(nearestPlayer.Parent.Name) then
				origin:SetNetworkOwner(game.Players:FindFirstChild(nearestPlayer.Parent.Name))
			end
		end

	end
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this also sets the networkownership b ecause if it didn’t then the player could be attacked when the zombie is like 10 studs away, so far it’s been working perfectly now I just have to have help or figuring out the pathfinding since robloxs pathfinding is not reliable

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I admit I skimmed through the post but are you recalculating the path often? If you are, the zombie is probably generating another path which sends it in the other direction constantly. Just generate one path until you NEED to generate another.

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I aina’t even generating paths I’m using nodes around the zombie with an offset and making the zombie move to the nodes position that is cloest to the target destination, it uses no path or stff like that

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idk how to generate a path either using hte current system or any paths at all

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I still need help foor this