How to add custom settings to Pathfinding Service?

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#1

Hello, Im making a game and I am wondering if I can make it so when a zombie gets near and NPC the NPC will run away using pathfinding service back to their house like minecraft but I am having trouble programming that so if anyone could help that would be great

#2

What you’d probably want to do is set up different waypoints and maybe add some sort of orb around the NPC/Zombie so that when one of them touches it they change their path so they head back towards a waypoint called house.

I’m not too experienced in using this but this is what I’d do with the knowledge I have.

#3
  1. In Minecraft they run to their house once it’s night, so I suggest using that instead.
  2. Just have a detection system and change their path and find the closest door.

So what you can do is use RunService.HeartStepped()
and run the following once a zombie gets close/when it’s night

local ClosestDoor

for _,door in pairs(doors:GetChildren)
    if not ClosestDoor or (NPC.HumanoidRootPart.Position - door.Position).Magnitude > 
 (NPC.HumanoidRootPart.Position - ClosestDoor.Position).Magnitude then
        ClosestDoor = door
    end
end
-- use pathfinding service to make the NPC run through the door

Note, the doors variable is the model which ever door is in.

#4

Instead I suggest checking how big the Magnitude of the NPC and the Zombie is; if it’s higher than X then the villager runs away.
Tho he might even need to make a custom Pathfinder, as else the NPC might run towards the zombie.

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#5

Yes but I have traps in my maze and I want the NPC to avoid them as well

#6

please read:

In this article they mark the path with white neon balls; I suggest checking for every waypoint if they come in contact with a trap, so if the path comes in contact with a trap you can connect the :Blocked() event to the path object and keep repeating this process, until you find the best path.

#7

I have read that but I want to do much more than avoid traps avoiding dynamic objects like players well. the traps were examples

#8

It’s the same thing, the NPC just has to keep track of the path he made and if the path doesn’t work out, for example a player comes in contact with a WayPoint of the path/gets close to a path (use Magnitude), then you use the :Blocked() event and connect it to the path object.

There’s a whole topic talking about this subject, just read the article.