How To Make A Humanoid Chase The Closest Player?

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#1

Hello! I Am Helping My Friend Make A Survival Type Game, And I Need An Enemy That Always Chases The Nearest Player (Kinda Like Evade)

I Have Been Searching For Over An Hour, But Nothing Works Or It’s Outdated (Mostly Looking For Ones With PathFinding)

So If Anyone Can Help Me! It Would Be Much Appreciated!

Also I Have No Idea How To Use Pathfinding :smiley:, If I Did I Would Do This Myself.

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#2

Please, search PathfindingService on the Roblox Documentation.
That may help you.

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#3

This tutorial is the one I always reccomend people, it really explains the code in detail and, as far as I know, still works

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#4 
local Pathfind = game.PathfindingService

while wait(0.1) do
	local human = [humanoid here]
	local pos = human.RootPart.Position
	local target = nil
	local targetDistance = math.huge
	local path = Pathfind:CreatePath()
	local op = OverlapParams.new()
	op.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Exclude
	op.FilterDescendantsInstances = {[enemy here]}

	for _, i in workspace:GetPartBoundsInRadius(pos, 1000, op) do
		if i.Name == "HumanoidRootPart" then
			path:ComputeAsync(pos, i.Position)
			if (i.Position-pos).Magnitude < targetDistance and path.Status == Enum.PathStatus.Success then
				target = i.Position
				targetDistance = (i.Position-pos).Magnitude
			end
		end
	end
	path:ComputeAsync(pos, target)
	if target then
		local waypoint = path:GetWaypoints()[12]
		if waypoint.Action == 1 then
			human.Jump = true
		end
		human:MoveTo(waypoint.Position)
	end
end
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#6

Huh, I keep getting an error,

attempt to index nil with 'Status'
#7

woops, i forgot computeAsync doesn’t return a path

#8

Anyway to fix it? AI Is one of the things im trash at, So i have no idea whats happening.

#9

it should work now, just made it compute the path before checking for its status

#10

Wait What Does It Mean By Unable to cast PathWaypoint to Vector3??

Am i missing something?

#11

i forgot :GetWaypoints() returns PathWaypoints and not Vector3s

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#12

BTW Do i need to add any patrol points? or do anythin else?

#13

not unless it to move around when it can’t find anyone

#14

Yeah my friend wanted to make this always chase the nearest player or smth
so ill test it and tell you if it does not work

#15

So… Uhhh… The Enemy Does Not Move. It Just Stands There, MENACINGLY!

#16

probally tracking its own humanoid rootpart, you dont need to change its name i added a filter to the detect thing so that it cant detect itself

#17

Do i need to add the humanoid, HRP or just the model of the enemy to the filter?

#18

put the model in the curly brackets here

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#19

It works but… Its very janky.

First Of All - It Only Moves When I Push It.
Second Of All - It Is Very… Weird.

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#20

it seems like computing the path causes a lot of lag between moves

#21

Ah Okay. Anyway to fix it?

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