How to make monster follow the player?

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#1

Hello! I’m trying to make a monster that follows the player. I managed to make the monster move to a part, but I’m not sure how to make it chase the player.

The Script:

local PathFindingService = game:GetService("PathfindingService")

local human = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local torso = script.Parent:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

local path = PathFindingService:CreatePath()
path:ComputeAsync(torso.Position, game.Workspace.endingPart.Position)
local waypoints = path:GetWaypoints()

for i, waypoint in pairs(waypoints) do
	if waypoint.Action == Enum.PathWaypointAction.Jump then
		human:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Jumping)
	end
	human:MoveTo(waypoint.Position)
	human.MoveToFinished:Wait(2)
end
while true do
	human:MoveTo(game.Workspace.endingPart.Position)
	wait(0.3)
end
Credit to TheDevKing

Thanks!

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Character following the closest player
#2

You’ll need to continuously re-call your code to make the monster keep chasing the player & update the destination.

You are re-calling MoveTo so it can reach the destination, but you also need to continually re-calculate the end position and the path to get there as well.

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#3

How do I make it chase the player? (As in, find the nearest player and go after it)

#4

Oh, I see. So, what you can do is get a table of players from the players service. Then, loop through that table and find which player is the closest based on the monster’s position relative to each player’s character’s position.



Players = game:GetService("Players")

local closest_player_distance = math.huge
local closest_player_hrp = nil
for i, player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
    -- Check if the player has a character
    local character = player.Character
    if character then
        local hrp = character:FindFirstChild(“HumanoidRootPart”)
        if hrp then
            local this_distance = (torso.Position - hrp.Position).Magnitude
            if this_distance < closest_player_distance then
                closest_player_distance = this_distance
                closest_player_hrp = hrp
            end
        end
    end
end

-- closest_player_hrp now has the closest player’s hrp

I recommend you put this code in a function so you can constantly re-run it to get the most up to date closest player. If you don’t, it will keep returning the same result.

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#5

How do I implement this in to the script? I’m sorry, my knowledge of Lua is very limited
Edit: I’m just trying to get the monster to pathfind to the player.