Pathfinding on Character?

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#1

Can I use Pathfinding on a actual Player Character?

local function ForcePlayerWalk(Player, Position)
	local Path = PathfindingService:CreatePath({AgentRadius = 2, AgentHeight = 5, AgentCanJump = false})
	
	Path:ComputeAsync(Player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position, Position)
	local Waypoints = Path:GetWaypoints()
	
	for _, Waypoint in pairs(Waypoints) do
		Player.Character.Humanoid:MoveTo(Waypoint.Position)
		
		Player.Character.Humanoid.MoveToFinished:Wait()	
	end
end

The for loop is not running at all.

#2

You should be able to just fine. EDIT: If the player moves it’ll override the :MoveTo() function. This website seems to solve that problem pretty well though.

Have you checked Path.Status?

#3

When should I check that?
30characters

#4

Check the .Status right after you do your :ComputeAsync() If its anything other than success that would explain why you say the loop never runs.

#5

I put in a print(Path.Status) before the for loop and it said no path.
Which is weird, because without the pathfinding a simple
MoveTo(Position works)

#6

In that case, Roblox failed to find a valid path to your destination, meaning your waypoints will be nil as they dont exist in the first place.

#7

How does this fail?
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#8

Is the Position argument that parts position? If so, its because the rest of the block is in the way. Make the block non-collideable. (Although I’m not sure if pathfinding ignores non collide parts. )

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#9

Nah it’s the side of the block.
We got all that here

and running just the MoveTo function wtihout pathfinding works fine.

#10

Try making the block non-collidable regardless and tell me if that works.

Also, it may not work because if you’re using CFrame.new(0, part.Size.Y/2, 0), that’ll get the top surface of the block, to get the side you’re going to want to modify that so it’s creating a CFrame with an offset that’s not along the Y-axis of the part.
For example: CFrame.new(0, 0, -part.Size.Z/2)

This works because :MoveTo isn’t calculating to see if the move is possible or not. It’s just gonna start moving towards a position regardless of any other potential variables.

#11

Nah, that aint what I’m using…

local PartFace = {
		North = Part.CFrame:PointToWorldSpace(Vector3.new(0, 0, Part.Size.Z/2)),
		South = Part.CFrame:PointToWorldSpace(Vector3.new(0, 0, (Part.Size.Z/2)*-1)),
		West = Part.CFrame:PointToWorldSpace(Vector3.new(Part.Size.X/2, 0, 0)),
		East = Part.CFrame:PointToWorldSpace(Vector3.new((Part.Size.X/2*-1), 0, 0))
	}
#12

Turning it to no-collide did work I think that’s because it’s literally a tiny bit in the block
image

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#13

That makes sense. To fix that you could add an extra 2 studs away from the block face so the path won’t fail.

Changing your table to this should work.

local PartFace = {
		North = Part.CFrame * Vector3.new(0, 0, (Part.Size.Z/2)+2),
		South = Part.CFrame * Vector3.new(0, 0, (-Part.Size.Z/2)+2),
		West = Part.CFrame * Vector3.new((Part.Size.X/2)+2, 0, 0),
		East = Part.CFrame * Vector3.new((-Part.Size.X/2)-2, 0, 0)
	}
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#14

I appreciate your help, I have actually forgoed the whole pathfinding thing, with the code I was using you could visually see the user stop and go, which I do not want.

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