Slime Enemy Movement

[bellw1se (wise)]

I’m trying to make a slime-like enemy. I would like it to jump up and move forwards at the same time, I’ve drawn out a demonstration here.

I’d like to do this using tweens instead of Humanoid.Jump as it didn’t really produce the results I would like.

I’ve got all the code to get the slime moving on the Z axis, and I have it moving forward by set intervals, but I’m not sure how to modify it’s height in the same way I explained above. This is the code to make it move forwards

local lungeSpeed = .5
local lungeInfo = TweenInfo.new(lungeSpeed,Enum.EasingStyle.Linear)
local lunge = enemyPrimaryPart.CFrame * CFrame.new(0, 0, -movespeed.Value) -- enemyPrimaryPart is the Slimes Primary Part
local lungeTween = TweenService:Create(enemyPrimaryPart, lungeInfo, {CFrame = lunge})
lungeTween:Play()

Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thank you.

[Oofer_manno (Oofer)]

This seems like a pretty good scenario to use a bezier curve, I would personally use a Quadratic Bezier curve in this scenario.
Here is a somewhat simple implementation of using a Quadratic Bezier curve to move the slime.

local Slime = workspace.Slime.PrimaryPart
local EndPart = workspace.EndPosition

local function quadBezier(t, p0, p1, p2)
	return (1-t)^2*p0+2*(1-t)*t*p1+t^2*p2
end



local function jump(partToJump, timeLength, jumpHeight, speed, endPosition)
	local startPosition = partToJump.Position
	local midpoint = startPosition:Lerp(endPosition, 0.5)
	local p1 = midpoint + Vector3.new(0 ,jumpHeight, 0)
	
	for i=0, timeLength, speed do
		local pos = quadBezier(i, startPosition, p1, endPosition)
		partToJump.CFrame = CFrame.new(pos)
		task.wait(0.01)
	end
	
end


while task.wait(3) do
	jump(Slime, 1, 5, 0.02, EndPart.Position)
end

Hope this can help.

[bellw1se (wise)]

Hi,

Appreciate the reply! This is almost exactly what I’m looking for, I’ve toyed around with it and almost have it fully functional in my script.

Just curious if there was a way to maintain the rotation during the for loop? I’ve tried a few ideas but I cant get it to stay facing the same direction.

Thanks for the help!

EDIT

Actually found the solution here; I just wasn’t using math.rad() when multiplying my angles.

partToJump.CFrame = CFrame.new(pos) * CFrame.Angles(math.rad(startRotation.X),math.rad(startRotation.Y),math.rad(startRotation.Z))

This code worked.

Apologies for the notification, but thank you for the help!