im trying to remake a feature from this game called “woman repellant” where the npc walks away and stares at u if u get close to it. i made the script but the lookatCF and the :MoveTo wont work together, they’ll only work if i take out one or the other.
local function update()
local mag = (hrp.Position - catHRP.Position).Magnitude
local direction = (hrp.Position - catHRP.Position).Unit
local angleinRads = math.atan2(direction.Z, direction.X)
if mag < DISTANCE then
local targetpos = Vector3.new(hrp.Position.X, catHRP.Position.Y, hrp.Position.Z)
local lookatCF = CFrame.lookAt(catHRP.Position, targetpos)
catHRP.CFrame = lookatCF
cat_humanoid:MoveTo(catHRP.Position + direction * distToMoveBack)
if not playing then
runAnimTrack:Play()
playing = true
end
else
runAnimTrack:Stop()
playing = false
end
end
connection = rs.Stepped:Connect(update)
For walking, I would try using the :Move() method for your NPCs’ Humanoid. It will move the Humanoid in a given Vector3. It has two arguments to pass in,
local vec3 = Vector3.new(-1 ,0, 0)
Humanoid:Move(vec3, true) -- First parameter is the Vector3, and the second parameter is if you want the humanoid to move relative to their camera.
If you don’t want to use Vector3 , then set the second parameter to true. This will make the humanoid walk relative to their camera, which is their CFrame.
hey guys, thank you very much for your help. i sort of found a solution using bodygyro and that’s rotating the character through the cframe lookat and i can move it backwards. i know bodygyro is deprecated so i’ll switch it to alignorientation later.
this is the solution (somewhat, its a bit buggy sometimes):
game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(p)
p.CharacterAdded:Connect(function(c)
-- Variables
local npc = workspace:FindFirstChild("catr6") -- Replace with your NPC
local catHumanoid = npc:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local catHRP = npc:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local hrp = c:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local runanim = npc.run
local runAnimTrack = catHumanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(runanim)
local connection = nil
local playing = false
-- Create BodyGyro to handle rotation
local bodyGyro = Instance.new("BodyGyro")
bodyGyro.MaxTorque = Vector3.new(0, 4000, 0) -- Only rotate along the Y axis
bodyGyro.P = 3000 -- Power for the gyro (rotation strength)
bodyGyro.D = 500 -- Damping to smooth out rotation
bodyGyro.Parent = catHRP
-- Function to smoothly rotate and move backward
local function moveAway()
local distance = (catHRP.Position - hrp.Position).Magnitude
-- If player is close enough
if distance < 10 then
-- Smoothly rotate the NPC towards the player using BodyGyro
bodyGyro.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(catHRP.Position, Vector3.new(hrp.Position.X, catHRP.Position.Y, hrp.Position.Z))
-- Calculate a point 10 studs backwards and move there
local backwardDirection = (catHRP.Position - hrp.Position).Unit * 10
local targetPosition = catHRP.Position + backwardDirection
catHumanoid.WalkToPoint = targetPosition
catHumanoid.AutoRotate = false
if not playing then
runAnimTrack:Play()
playing = true
print("playing!")
end
else
-- Stop the NPC if player is far
catHumanoid.WalkToPoint = catHRP.Position
catHumanoid.AutoRotate = true
runAnimTrack:Stop()
playing = false
end
end
-- Connect to RunService to check player's position every frame
game:GetService("RunService").Stepped:Connect(moveAway)
end)
end)
