How Would I Get an NPC to Strafe?

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#1

As I’m sure you’re already aware. Simply calling Humanoid:MoveTo() or Humanoid:Move() will automatically cause an NPC to face the direction specified as they move.

How would I be able to make an NPC strafe to a given location? By this I mean move toward where I told it to, but constantly be facing a different direction? I understand the AutoRotate feature can be turned off, but in a situation of target tracking, how would I change which direction the NPC is facing, while it’s moving?

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#2

Changing its CFrame while it moves I guess?

#3

I considered that, but changing it’s CFrame would interrupt the movement, it’d either kill the NPC, abandon the moveto() or just look choppy.

#4

Change the CFrame of the motor6D Joints.

#5

Create a walk animation and sync it with moving the CFrame instead of using :MoveTo()?

#6

Wouldn’t that change only the rotation of the welded parts, not the humanoidrootpart?

#7

I’ve seen people using BodyGyros for this, so I’m looking into that instead.

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#8

You should make the HRP invisible and the other parts should be welded. I’m not sure if the HRP is welded too.

#9

The HumanoidRootPart doesn’t contain any welds, all welds are “rooted” if you will, to the HRP. So changing the welds doesn’t affect the HRP at all.

#10

Well it should be invisible, so it shouldn’t matter too much to the user.

#11

I’m designing a full on AI bot system. So the HRP’s rotation substitutes as camera vectors for the AI.

#12

The easy way would be to use BodyGyro to keep the NPC facing the correct direction while not interrupting its intended path.

Make sure to have it’s MaxTorque property a little like this: Vector3.new(0,40000,0) where only the Y value has anything greater than 0.

Then, via scripting, change it’s CFrame property (generally hidden) to the angle you desire. Since the other 2 in MaxTorque are at 0, only its left-to-right rotation (the Y-axis) will be affected.

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#13

Thanks, that actually helps a lot. I was going to do some scripting solutions to remove X and Z rotation from the system, but that’s a much easier solution.

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