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What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
I want an Npc to walk after a local player. You know like in obbys the monster(NPC) only walks after you even tough there are players near the monster, so locally.
What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
I have tried everything and it doesnt seem to work. I tried cloning an npc from replicated storage with a local script but that didnt work.
What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
i cant find anything
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To get a Model to move towards a point, you can use Humanoid:MoveTo(position: Vector3), so what you can do is getting the Local Player, then get the RunService and connect it with either the Stepped or Heartbeat event like this:
RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
end)
Inside, you can check if the Player has a character, if it is so, then get the Position of it and pass it into the MonsterHumanoid:MoveTo() function.
Edit: Accidentally switched up Model with Humanoid, fixed it!
This should work in a Local Script, and I hope I could help!
Hi, I tried your suggestion but it didnt seem to work.
This is the local script located inside of the npc model:
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
if plr.Character then
script.Parent:MoveTo(plr.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position)
end
end)```
The npc just stands still
local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local model = ... -- put the directory to the npc model here
RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
if plr.Character then
model:WaitForChild("Humanoid"):MoveTo(plr.Character:GetPivot().Position)
end
end)
LocalScripts don’t run under Workspace unless its a descendant of the player’s character.
Oh sorry, my bad, I never noticed that scripts will only work like this.
I don’t know if there is a better way of doing this (and if there is one, please correct me), but how I got it was by making the existence of the model local too, by cloning it inside a LocalScript into the workspace from the ReplicatedStorage.
Since every Instance has a :Clone() function, you could place your model inside the ReplicatedStorage, and then clone it into the world inside a StarterPlayerScript like this:
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local model = ReplicatedStorage.MODEL_PLACEHOLDER:Clone()
This has the benefit that you can easily use, for example, the same monster model a number of times without referencing every single instance of them inside the workspace, but don’t forget to change the Position of the model with Model:PivotTo(cframe) if you want it somewhere else.
