Need help with pathfinding!

[alexjouq]

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!

I want to make that npc gets as close to the target as possible. (even if the path is blocked)

2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
   
   

I don’t really know how do it because whatever the path is blocked it doesn’t give any waypoints.

Sorry for the bad English.

[Ihaveash0rtname]

iirc Roblox is planning to release an update for this. (It might be a beta feature, I don’t remember)

[Ihaveash0rtname]

Improving Pathfinding Quality With New Algorithm

[Update] November 15, 2024 Hello Creators, As you know, pathfinding is a crucial component to enable rich NPC behavior that enhances the overall user experience. Over the past few years, we’ve received your reports on the many quality issues related to the Pathfinding service. Similar to the recent improvements in memory and performance, we have focused on making significant improvements to pathfinding quality this year. We identified three major issues where fixes would have the greatest …

[alexjouq]

But is it possible to achieve something similar right now?

[Scottifly]

Have you tried searching the forums? I know there are lots of posts about pathfinding and they have links to the Roblox documentation pages.
Search terms like ‘pathfinding not reaching goal’, ‘pathfinding blocked’, or other similar terms.

[watIsInTheName]

No partial path is only supported in this update in studio only.