Rotating the NPC without messing with MoveTo?

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#1

So I am currently working on a system that involves NPCs for my game, the problem is that what I need to do is make the NPCs face the player, whilst moving to a certain location.

Now the movement and looking works fine, except when I use the function to make it look at the Player, the NPC begins to stutter, but still move forwards towards the given location.

After removing the Look at function I can confirm it was the problem, and I believe its cause its disrupting it some how and just making the NPC not walk as smoothly, so my question is simple, how can I fix this?

some code snippets

look at function

local module = {}

function module:EnemyFacePo(Model:Model, Position:Vector3)
	local CurrentPosition = Model.PrimaryPart.Position
	local LookAt = Vector3.new(Position.X, CurrentPosition.Y, Position.Z)
	
	Model.PrimaryPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(CurrentPosition, LookAt)
	
	return
end

return module

Enemy code for moving

EnemyFunctions:EnemyFacePo(Model, TargetRoot.Position)
Humanoid:MoveTo(TargetRoot.Position + OffsetPo)

Thanks!

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#2

Use CFrame.lookat() rather than CFrame.new()

CFrame.lookat() returns a CFrame with a position of the first vector3 but oriented towards the second vector3.

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#3

I tried this:

function module:EnemyFacePo(Model:Model, Position:Vector3)
	local CurrentPosition = Model.PrimaryPart.Position
	local LookAt = Vector3.new(Position.X, CurrentPosition.Y, Position.Z)
	
	Model.PrimaryPart.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(CurrentPosition, LookAt)
	
	return
end

but the issue still persists, to be fair idk how to use lookAt so Im not sure If Im doing it correctly.

#4

CFrame.new(Pos1, Pos2) and CFrame.lookAt(Pos1, Pos2) do basically the same thing, though. It’s purely a matter of preference.