Using Parallel Lua for Pathfinding?

[Askavix]

I am creating an AI that needs to constantly pathfind to chase a target.

Besides trying to cache the position or only use pathfinding when there isn’t a direct line of sight, I am trying to see if I can take advantage of Parallel Lua to make the calculations faster.

Does anyone have any experience on how to go about this?

When I tried to it said that “Function Path.ComputeAsync is not safe to call in parallel”, does this mean it just can’t be done or I am doing it wrong?

[SubtotalAnt8185]

@Askavix

it just can’t be done

You need a BindableFunction to accomplish this, in an actor. You can’t do the ComputeAsync in parallel, but you can send a table to the function and move to the points in parallel.

[Nickaladormz (nickelodeon)]

Can you provide an example please? (If it even makes a difference to begin with) I’ve been looking for an alternative to this as well.

[SubtotalAnt8185]

That method is outdated. You should refer to this instead:

Parallel Luau [Version 2 Release]

Hi Developers, In our initial release of Parallel Luau, there were many cases where communicating with an Actor or associated scripts could be inconvenient. Today, we have introduced two key features to make communication more convenient and to open up new ways to communicate efficiently; Actor Messaging API & SharedTable. Previously, communication required storing state directly in the DataModel, or transmitting state using existing mechanisms (e.g. BindableEvents). So, while communication wa…