Making a NPC move in front of the player

[Blackstonewarrior (Warrior)]

Hello! I wanted to make an NPC follow and attack a Player but it keeps trying to get to the exact same Position as the HumanoidRootPart, which makes it want to stand on top of them, which disrupts gameplay.

How would I make the NPC move in front of the Player?

[GetGlobals (Globals)]

It’s some additional math and using LookVector

MoveTo(TargetRootPart.Position + (TargetRootPart.CFrame.LookVector * 2))

If the player is looking away from the enemy the enemy will try to walk through them tho’ but this should be plenty.

[Blackstonewarrior (Warrior)]

It does work but the enemy just walks in front of them, and doesn’t look towards them. Do you know how I would make the enemy face the Player?

[completelyhazel (hazel)]

You can use this response I found in another DevForum post:

How do I make a player face a certain part?

(Someone already replied, but I might as well provide an answer anyway) You’re going to want to change the character’s PrimaryPart (typically HumanoidRootPart)'s CFrame to keep the same position, but change the orientation. Fortunately, instead of doing a bunch of math, we can take advantage of this CFrame constructor: CFrame.new(Vector3 position, Vector3 lookAt) So here’s a simple example of facing a character towards your target brick function lookAt(chr,target) --assume chr is a character…

If you want to tween the CFrame instead, you can save that CFrame in a variable and then you can use this tutorial in order to tween it:

Introduction to Tweening Models

Note (06/30/2021): Due to the release of the new pivot APIs and the thankful deprecation of SetPrimaryPartCFrame, the legacy method of CFraming is now also appropriate and you do not necessarily need to use this welding method. Do note that the pivot CFrame is different from the PrimaryPart CFrame though, so you will have to account for that when writing your proxy objects. Contents Introduction Understanding Tweening Concept of Tweening Models Rigging Your Model 4.1. Setting Up the Root 4…

[Blackstonewarrior (Warrior)]

I’ve tried them, and I’ve got a result where the enemy just looks at you all the time which bugs the way it walks, and it also messes up my game’s combat. I want it to look at the Player only on a horizontal axis, so that it doesn’t look up or down.

[GetGlobals (Globals)]

if (TargetRootPart.Position - NPCRootPart.Position).Magnitude <= 5 then
-- TWEEN LOOKING AT AI HERE
local LookAt = CFrame.new(TargetRootPart.Position, NPCRootPart.Position * Vector3.new(1, 0, 1))

It’s not a good fix but should do. I would more recommend applying changes to the Orientation property of RootPart.

[Blackstonewarrior (Warrior)]

Thanks for all your suggestions and help guys, I got it to work!