Trouble with understanding PathFindingService

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  1. So I been trying to get into learning pathfindingservice and stuff because it can be usefully for many different things, including making a TDF game.

  2. The main issue right now is this one line of code I don’t really understand so if you guys could help me that would be cool

if v.Action == Enum.PathWaypointAction.Jump then
Humanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Jumping)
end

So basically, I don’t understand the point of setting the waypoint.action = Enum.PathWaypointAction.Jump cause by default doesn’t the npc/humanoid walk to the given location so is this if statement even going to happened? so would It be better if I did this instead.

if v.Action == Enum.PathWaypointAction.Walk then
Humanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Jumping)
end

  1. I tried looking up the definition/what it does on the devhub but doesn’t really give me the answer I need, tried asking in discord server still no.

Here is the fulll code

local PathFindingService = game:GetService("PathfindingService")

local Humanoid = script.Parent:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local HumanoidRootPart = script.Parent:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")

local Path = PathFindingService:CreatePath()

Path:ComputeAsync(HumanoidRootPart.Position,workspace.zend.Position)

for i,v in pairs(Path:GetWaypoints()) do
	
	if v.Action == Enum.PathWaypointAction.Jump then
		Humanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Jumping)
	end
	
	Humanoid:MoveTo(v.Position)
	Humanoid.MoveToFinished:wait(.25)
end
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Moveto doesn’t make the humanoid jump across gaps, so it just walks into the gap. We set the humanoid’s state to jumping so that it jumps across the gap.