NPC won't walk to point as intended [Pathfinding]

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#1

So basically I’m working on a tower defense game. And I’m using pathfinding to make my enemies walk to the end using the path. But I noticed that when a zombie is too slow they tend to move to the next point earlier / take shortcuts. Is there any way I can prevent this from happening?

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Thats the code inside of the zombie:

local PathfindingService = game:GetService("PathfindingService")
local animTrack = script.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(game.Workspace.DeathWalk)
animTrack.Looped = true
animTrack:Play()

local zombie = script.Parent
local humanoid = zombie.Humanoid

spawn(function()
	for _,waypoints in pairs(game.Workspace.Waypoints:GetChildren()) do
		local path = PathfindingService:CreatePath()
		path:ComputeAsync(zombie.HumanoidRootPart.Position, waypoints.Position)
		local wp = path:GetWaypoints()
		for _, wp in pairs(wp) do
			humanoid:MoveTo(wp.Position)
			humanoid.MoveToFinished:Wait()
		end
	end
end)

Thanks in advance,
avellx (Avex).

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#2

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#3

Well thank you I guess :smiley:

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#4

Could you show us where all your waypoints for the enemy to travel are located?

#5

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The blue neon parts are the waypoints.

#6

Try repeating until the ai successfully moved into point…

repeat
humanoid:MoveTo(wp.Position)
wait(.1)
until
humanoid.MoveToFinished:Wait()

Adjust the wait tho

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#7 
local PathfindingService = game:GetService("PathfindingService")
local animTrack = script.Parent.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(game.Workspace.DeathWalk)
animTrack.Looped = true
animTrack:Play()

local zombie = script.Parent
local humanoid = zombie.Humanoid

spawn(function()
	for _,waypoints in pairs(game.Workspace.Waypoints:GetChildren()) do
		local path = PathfindingService:CreatePath()
		path:ComputeAsync(zombie.HumanoidRootPart.Position, waypoints.Position)
		local wp = path:GetWaypoints()
		for _, wp in pairs(wp) do
			repeat
				humanoid:MoveTo(wp.Position)
				wait(.1)
			until humanoid.MoveToFinished:Wait()
		end
	end
end)

So i changed it to this but now he doesn’t even move. The animation still plays though.

#8

Try adjusting the normal wait function

#9

Do you mean inside of the repeat loop or inside of MoveToFinished:Wait() ? I tried both and neither worked.

#10

If it doesn’t work, revert the code to yours and try looking for other solution

#11

It looks that you already created the waypoints in game.Workspace.Waypoints and in that case, you should not need to use pathfinding service. So something like this:

for _,waypoint in pairs(workspace.Waypoints:GetChildren()) do -- You can use workspace instead of game.Workspace
	repeat
		humanoid:MoveTo(waypoint.Position)
		-- I don't think that you need the wait here
	until humanoid.MoveToFinished:Wait()
end
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#12

Great, this seemed to work a lot better! Thank you.

#13

No problem, glad I could help!