Pathfinding stutters when other bots are infront of it

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I’m making pathfinding bots that chase down the player once spotted, or in this case with this prototype, chase down a dummy target, but the problem is when one gets in front of another, or multiple in front of each other, they all seem to try and recalculate the path to avoid each other, but then just continue the path right after, it causes this weird stuttering effect that I need to fix.

Example


My bots use SimplePath, a module for pathfinding, and I’m open to other options, but at the moment I’m just confused at what I should do here.

I’ll leave the code here incase anyone can figure out if there’s some sort of issue with it, sorry about the spaghetti code, these are just prototypes though.


local enemy = script.Parent.Parent

local player = workspace.GameAssets.AIAssets.ObstacleCourse.desired

local path = simplePath.new(enemy)

-- create a loop to continuously fire the ray and update enemy position
while wait() do
	-- create a new ray from the enemy's HumanoidRootPart to the player's HumanoidRootPart
	local raycastParams = RaycastParams.new()
	
	raycastParams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {enemy, workspace.DebugBlocks, workspace.Enemies}
	raycastParams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist
	
    local raycastResult = workspace:Raycast(enemy.HumanoidRootPart.Position, (player.HumanoidRootPart.Position - enemy.HumanoidRootPart.Position).Unit * 1000, raycastParams)
	
	-- debug to check where rays hit

	--[[if raycastResult then
		local hitPart = Instance.new("Part")
		hitPart.Name = "RayHit"
		hitPart.Anchored = true
		hitPart.CanCollide = false
		hitPart.Transparency = 0.5
		hitPart.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Bright red")
		hitPart.Size = Vector3.new(0.5, 0.5, 0.5)
		hitPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(raycastResult.Position)
		hitPart.Parent = workspace.DebugBlocks
	end]]
	
    if raycastResult then
        local hitObject = raycastResult.Instance

        -- check if the hit object is a descendant of the player
		if hitObject:IsDescendantOf(player) then
			
			if path.Status ~= "Idle" then
				path:Stop()
			end
            -- Move the enemy directly towards the player
            enemy.Humanoid:MoveTo(player.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
        else
            -- use SimplePath to navigate towards the player
            local goal = player.HumanoidRootPart.Position
			path.Visualize = true
            path:Run(goal)
        end
    end

end