Pathfinding walking animation jittering

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1

Coming to the dev forum since i really need help.

Whats my issue?
My npcs walk jittery with their pathfinding script, which is a common problem when it comes to pathfinding and moveto()

Ive tried multiple things, adding debounces, waits, humanoid.MoveToFinished:Connect(function() then wrapping a wait in that. Ive tried distance based scripts to detect when they have reached the point and add a wait in. Ive tried everything, and nothing is working at all. When i do use the humanoid.MoveToFinished:Connect(function() it completely breaks my entire pathfinding script, the npcs just teleport to the camera parts and then don’t walk in the right way after.

I would really appreciate some help as ive been trying for ages and they still walk all jittery, the solutions i usually use won’t work and end up breaking other things in the script.

here is my script:

local PathfindingService = game:GetService("PathfindingService")

local npc = script.Parent.Parent
local humanoid = npc:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local rootPart = npc:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

rootPart:SetNetworkOwner(nil)


local function moveThrough(positions)
	for _, pos in ipairs(positions) do
		local path = PathfindingService:CreatePath({
			AgentRadius = 1,
			AgentHeight = 3,
			AgentCanJump = false,
			AgentCanClimb = false
		})

		path:ComputeAsync(rootPart.Position, pos)

		local waypoints = path.Status == Enum.PathStatus.Success
			and path:GetWaypoints()
			or { { Position = pos, Action = Enum.PathWaypointAction.Walk } }

		for _, wp in ipairs(waypoints) do
			humanoid:MoveTo(wp.Position)
			humanoid.MoveToFinished:Wait()
			wait()
		end
	end
end

local function getIndexedPositions(folderName, tagPrefix, count)
	local folder = workspace.GameAssets.Waypaths:WaitForChild(folderName)
	local points = {}

	for i = 1, count do
		local part = folder:FindFirstChild(tagPrefix .. i)
		if part and part:IsA("BasePart") then
			table.insert(points, part.Position)
		end
	end

	return points
end

function startNPCMovement()
	-- GameHall walk
	moveThrough(getIndexedPositions("GameHall", "Waypoint", 5))

	-- Random camera walk
	local camId = math.random(1, 3)
	local camTarget = workspace.GameAssets:FindFirstChild("CameraBoxNPC" .. camId)
	if camTarget then
		moveThrough({ camTarget:FindFirstChild("CamLine").Position })

		-- Teleport sequence
		rootPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(camTarget:FindFirstChild("TeleportStart").Position)
		camTarget.MainPart.SMILE:Play()
		task.wait(3)
		rootPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(camTarget:FindFirstChild("TeleportEnd").Position)
		camTarget.MainPart.CameraFlash:Play()
	end

	-- RLGL walk
	moveThrough(getIndexedPositions("RLGL", "Diode", 17))
end

game.ReplicatedStorage.Remotes.AIGamehall.OnServerEvent:Connect(function()
	wait(math.random(1,60))
	startNPCMovement()
end)

if anyone can help then i greatly appreciate it.

2

Use something that isn’t humanoid.MoveToFinished. Use a loop calculating the distance every frame and if the distance reaches or goes under a certain threshold the loop ends, and it continues to the next waypoint.

3

already tried this one sorry.
it didn’t work either and ended up breaking the script.

4

Try using SetNetworkOwner of the humanoidrootpart to nil, there was a video on Pathfinding, and they mentioned Jittering, the link is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQGopkmsfwQ Try skipping to 5 minutes seconds for the explanation. By the way I believe its due to the server and client fighting over who has ownership, thus causing a “jitter”.

Hope it helps. :smiley:

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