Script that makes a humanoid move to destination

[matt1020304050]

So I want to every 1 second spawn a new NPC and make it move to x location. Using the moveto function doesn’t seem to work properly, after a few moments the npc stops moving towards the destination. So I need a loop to constantly make him walk the distance. How can I run a loop to spawn an npc, at the same time also loop that npc to walk towards the target position?

I need to do this via local script as well, needs to be done client side in my case.

My current script, only runs once in the main loop.

task.wait(20)
print("go")



walkAnim = "3489174223"

function playNewAnimation(track, whichHumanoid, looped)
	for i,v in pairs(whichHumanoid:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()) do
		v:Stop()
	end

	local Animator = whichHumanoid:WaitForChild("Animator")

	local animation = Instance.new("Animation")
	animation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://" .. track

	local shockAnimationTrack = Animator:LoadAnimation(animation)
	shockAnimationTrack.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Action
	shockAnimationTrack.Looped = looped
	shockAnimationTrack:Play()
end





function spawnNewZombie()
	local newZombie = game:GetService("Lighting"):WaitForChild("TurretMissionZombie"):Clone()

	newZombie.Parent = workspace
	local countSpawns = workspace:WaitForChild("TurretZombieSpawns_1"):GetChildren()
	local whichLocation = countSpawns[math.random(1,#countSpawns)]
	newZombie:MoveTo(whichLocation.Position)
	playNewAnimation(walkAnim, newZombie.Zombie, true)
	
	while true do
		newZombie.Zombie:MoveTo(workspace:WaitForChild("DummyTarget").Position)
		task.wait(1)
		
	end
end


while true do
	task.wait(1)
	spawnNewZombie() -- this loop gets stuck once this function runs
end

[metatab1e]

Why not use pathfinding to do this?

[matt1020304050]

Don’t wanna waste resources, I plan to make a lot of NPC’s. Unless I keep computing their path (which would be expensive) then they will just run into themselves once one walks in front of the other.

[metatab1e]

You could also use collision groups to just avoid them colliding at all

[matt1020304050]

I found a solution.

task.wait(20)
print("go")



walkAnim = "3489174223"

function playNewAnimation(track, whichHumanoid, looped)
	for i,v in pairs(whichHumanoid:GetPlayingAnimationTracks()) do
		v:Stop()
	end

	local Animator = whichHumanoid:WaitForChild("Animator")

	local animation = Instance.new("Animation")
	animation.AnimationId = "rbxassetid://" .. track

	local shockAnimationTrack = Animator:LoadAnimation(animation)
	shockAnimationTrack.Priority = Enum.AnimationPriority.Action
	shockAnimationTrack.Looped = looped
	shockAnimationTrack:Play()
end



local zombieTable = {}

function spawnNewZombie()
	local newZombie = game:GetService("Lighting"):WaitForChild("TurretMissionZombie"):Clone()

	newZombie.Parent = workspace
	local countSpawns = workspace:WaitForChild("TurretZombieSpawns_1"):GetChildren()
	local whichLocation = countSpawns[math.random(1,#countSpawns)]
	newZombie:MoveTo(whichLocation.Position)
	playNewAnimation(walkAnim, newZombie.Zombie, true)
	
	
		

		
	table.insert(zombieTable, newZombie)
end


function orderMovement()
	for i,v in pairs(zombieTable) do
		print(i,v)
		v.Zombie:MoveTo(workspace:WaitForChild("DummyTarget").Position)
	end
	
end

while true do
	task.wait(1)
	spawnNewZombie()
	orderMovement()
end