Tower Defense Game Enemy Movement

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#1

Yo,
I’m trying to make Enemy Movement in my Tower Defense game more similar to the one from TDS. Right now the Enemies are moving in a straight line and one behind each other. I want them to be placed more random and not really on the same X-Z Axis (Depends on the Rotation of them). How can I even achieve that?

Screenshot from TDS:
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As you can see on this ss the zombies aren’t walking in the same X-Z Axis they are more to the left or to the right.

Screenshot from My Game:
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As you can see here. The Enemies are walking in a straight line in the middle of the path. Not being more to the left nor right

So how can I achieve making smth like this?
btw i’m using Client-Side rendering to make it more optimized

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#2

Why don’t you give them a random offset when the spawn and the same offset to the goal. Just make sure the offset isn’t too much or the NPC will go off the track.

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#3

When your making them walk add a slight offset, like:
Don’t get confused by this but its actually really simple!

2*(Vector3.new(math.random(),0,math.random())-Vector3.one*0.5)*Intensity
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#4

I’ve tried doing that before but it didn’t really work as it should

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#5

I tried using that before but the problem is that whenever they change the way they are looking I would need to change the offset to from x to z etc.

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#6

Use CFrames to offset the entity’s position. What you are doing right now is just incrementing/decrementing the Vector3 of the entities, which will lead to desynchronization by a few studs.

I presume you are sending the CFrame of the entity to move them in the client (and I highly recommend to offset on the client), so you could multiply the CFrame by the randomized offset, sorta like this:

local offset = CFrame.new(randomizednumber, 0, 0) -- offset the CFrame on the X axis.
FinalCFrame = SentCFrame * offset
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