Restaurant NPC help

[notrustysillyband]

I am trying to recreate a sandbox tycoon similar to Restaurant Tycoon, but I’m not too sure how I’d go about making the NPCs…

1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!
   I am trying to make it so whenever a seat gets placed down in the tycoon, an NPC will spawn and walk into the doorway… I’m not too sure how to achieve this outcome as of yet, and I would appreciate it if someone could either explain this to me, or help.

2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!
   The issue is that I simply do not know how to make this work.
   

   

3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?
   Yes, I did look for help on the Dev Forum, YouTube, and Discord Servers. I’ve tried several different scripts with several different outcomes, but none have worked as of yet.

After that, you should include more details if you have any. Try to make your topic as descriptive as possible, so that it’s easier for people to help you!

My current script I am using:

-- Services
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local Tycoons = game:GetService("Workspace"):FindFirstChild("Tycoons")

-- Variables
local NPCsFolder = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("NPCs"):GetChildren()

-- Functions
local function spawnNPCs()
	for _, tycoon in pairs(Tycoons:GetChildren()) do
		if tycoon:GetAttribute("Taken") then
			wait(1)
			for i, seat in pairs(tycoon.Builds:GetChildren()) do
				if seat.Name == "Seat" then
					local randomNPC = NPCsFolder[math.random(1, #NPCsFolder)]
					local npcClone = randomNPC:Clone()

					npcClone:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart").CFrame = tycoon.Building.SpawnPart.CFrame
					npcClone.Parent = tycoon.Customers
					tycoon.Values.Customers.Value += 1
					wait(1)
				end
			end
		end
	end
end

-- Signals
while wait(5) do
	spawnNPCs()
end

[notrustysillyband]

The current script I am using seems to me as if it would work, but it only causes lag and does not work.

[Juicy_Fruit]

I can’t tell if theres anything particularly wrong with with your code… the only thing I would point out would be a particular methodology: delegating classes i.e. each player upon making a tycoon popup would prompt a new tycoonclass

Tycoon.new()

and within this module script would be a detection of seats or table classes which have their seat count
CustomerTable.new()

if table is free and seatcount~=0, we will wait some time before spawing npcs at the door using seat count to spawn the number of npcs and set table to notfree, repeat cycle…

free should be a bool value that can have listening events along with seatcount.

Is there something specific you’re wanting?

[notrustysillyband]

Thank you for the reply! I’ll try this out and let you know how it works! The only thing I specifically want is to make it so an NPC will spawn when there’s an empty seat, otherwise, if there are no empty seats, it won’t spawn.