Humanoid.MoveDirection stays at 0(Any help appreciated)

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#1

I made an NPC that chases a player. I made the sctipt but the NPC move direction stays at 0.
The script needs the move direction to work. Are there any other ways to replace MoveDirection?

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#2

NPCs do not use MoveDirection, its a thing used to figure out the desired direction a client wishes to move a humanoid.

#3

what would I use to replace it?

#4

If you could show what you need it for, we could probably see what other things you can use.

#5

Makes NPC snap turn

local character = script.Parent
local Humanoid = character.Humanoid
local HRP = character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
Humanoid:GetPropertyChangedSignal('MoveDirection'):Connect(function()
	if Humanoid.MoveDirection.X > .1 then
		HRP.CFrame = CFrame.new(HRP.CFrame.Position, Vector3.new(HRP.CFrame.Position.X + 2, HRP.CFrame.Position.Y, HRP.CFrame.Position.Z))
	elseif Humanoid.MoveDirection.X < -.1 then
		HRP.CFrame = CFrame.new(HRP.CFrame.Position, Vector3.new(HRP.CFrame.Position.X - 2, HRP.CFrame.Position.Y, HRP.CFrame.Position.Z))
	end 
end)
#6

what i did because i encountered a similar issue, is i just stored a value in the NPC script of where i wanted it to move to, and then i just used that instead of the movedirection.

#7

How would I do that?(Sorry I’m newer with coding)

#8

so normally to move an NPC you’d use the functions

Humanoid:MoveTo(--[[position here]])

-- or

Humanoid:Move(--[[direction]])

i’d create two functions called Move and MoveTo and just make it so that when its called it stores a variable called MoveDir based on the information i’ve passed through the function.

MoveDir = Vector3.zero
rootPart = script.Parent.HumanoidRootPart
humanoid = script.Parent.Humanoid

function MoveTo(position)
    MoveDir = (position - rootPart.Position).Unit
    humanoid:MoveTo(position)
end

function Move(direction)
    MoveDir = direction
    humanoid:Move(direction)
end
#9

This is the chase player script. Idk if I did your way right. I don’t see any errors on your script

local NPC = workspace.Enemy
NPC.PrimaryPart:SetNetworkOwner(nil)

local pfs = game:GetService("PathfindingService") -- Pathfinding service
local runService = game:GetService("RunService")

local hum = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid") -- npc humanoid
local torso = script.Parent:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart") -- npc torso


local players = game:GetService("Players")
local distance
local closestPlayer, closestDistance = nil, math.huge


function checkPlayerDistance() -- Function will loop through the players and get the nearest player
	local children = players:GetChildren()

	for i,v in pairs(children) do
		if v then
			distance = (v.Character:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position - torso.Position).magnitude

			if distance <= closestDistance then
				closestDistance = distance
				closestPlayer = v
			end
		end
	end

	return closestPlayer 
end

runService.Heartbeat:Connect(function() -- NPC will follow the nearest player

	local returnedPlayer = checkPlayerDistance()

	local path = pfs:CreatePath()
	path:ComputeAsync(torso.Position, returnedPlayer.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position)

	local waypoints = path:GetWaypoints()

	local function npcStuck()
		local pos1 = torso.Position
		wait(1)
		local pos2 = torso.Position

		if (pos1 - pos2).magnitude < 1 then

		end
	end

	if waypoints and waypoints[2] then
		local pos = waypoints[2]	
		hum:MoveTo(pos.Position)
	end

	closestDistance = math.huge
end)
#10

so you see how you do hum:MoveTo(pos.Position)? what i did for my script was instead of using the function of the humanoid right away, i made two functions called the same things and stored the move direction based on the vector i parsed through the function. then in the function i called hum:MoveTo().