What I want to make is a pathfinding npc that chases down players in range. However, when I tried to achieve this with the script below, it doesn’t work in a way that it is suppose to. Sure it walks and follow players but it just doesn’t use any pathfinding.
This is the code that I typed in, I’m so sorry for the long code 
:
local PathfindingService = game:GetService("PathfindingService")
local maxDistance = 100
local myHuman = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local hrp = script.Parent:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local originalPosition = hrp.Position
local function target()
local children = game.Workspace:GetChildren()
for i, v in pairs(children) do
if v:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
if (v.HumanoidRootPart.Position - hrp.Position).Magnitude <= maxDistance then
return (v.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
end
end
end
end
local function paths(hrp)
local playerTarget = target()
if playerTarget ~= nil then
local path = PathfindingService:CreatePath()
path:ComputeAsync(hrp.Position, playerTarget)
local waypoints = path:GetWaypoints()
for i, waypoint in pairs(waypoints) do
myHuman:MoveTo(waypoint.Position)
end
else
myHuman:MoveTo(originalPosition)
end
end
while wait(1) do
paths(hrp)
end
My guess on what the cause of the problem is all the fast loops running simultaneously. A solution I tried to do to fix this problem is by adding a wait(1) . It worked a little but it wasn’t that smooth.
The code that I typed is possibly the most inefficient thing you ever seen and I am open for improvements. I am new to pathfinding and I hope I learn more about it.
Thanks in advance 
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