Why is my very still NPC's state running?

[ew_iscool (goober)]

im trying to make an NPC that can pathfind around walls while also tracking the player, but it breaks around said walls. i tried to see what the problem was and the NPC’s state is running, even when its standing still. please help

local NPC = script.Parent
local NPCHumanoid = NPC.Humanoid
local NPCHumanoidRootPart = NPC.HumanoidRootPart

local function GetNearestPlayer()
	local players = game.Players:GetPlayers()
	local nearestplayer = nil
	local nearestdistance = math.huge
	for _,player in pairs(players) do
		if player.Character and player.Character.HumanoidRootPart then
			local char = player.Character
			local distance = (char.HumanoidRootPart.Position - NPC.HumanoidRootPart.Position).Magnitude
			
			if distance < nearestdistance then
				nearestdistance = distance
				nearestplayer = player
			end
		end
	end
	return nearestplayer,nearestdistance
end

--make enemies shoot a ray to see if the player is visible, if so, recalculate quickly like normal, if not, go around the wall.

local pathfindingservice = game:GetService("PathfindingService")

local function RaycastToPlayer(player)
	local rayorigin = NPCHumanoidRootPart.Position
	local raydirection = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position - NPCHumanoidRootPart.Position
	local raycastparams = RaycastParams.new()
	raycastparams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Exclude
	raycastparams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {NPC,game.Workspace.Chasers}
	
	local raycastResult = workspace:Raycast(rayorigin,raydirection,raycastparams)
	if raycastResult and raycastResult.Instance and raycastResult.Instance.Parent and game.Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(raycastResult.Instance.Parent) then
		return true
	else
		return false
	end
end

local function Move(player,distance)
	local path = pathfindingservice:CreatePath()
	path:ComputeAsync(NPCHumanoidRootPart.Position,player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position)
	local velocity = player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.AssemblyLinearVelocity
	
	local waypoints = path:GetWaypoints()
	for i=1,#waypoints do
		print(i)
		local waypoint = waypoints[i]
		print("1")
		if waypoint.Action == Enum.PathWaypointAction.Jump and NPCHumanoid:GetState() ~= Enum.HumanoidStateType.Jumping and NPCHumanoid:GetState() ~= Enum.HumanoidStateType.Freefall then
			NPCHumanoid:ChangeState(Enum.HumanoidStateType.Jumping)
		end
		print("2")
		if RaycastToPlayer(player) then
			print("no wall")
			NPCHumanoid:MoveTo(waypoint.Position + velocity)
			print("no wall2")
			else
			print("wall")
			print(waypoint.Position)
			NPCHumanoid:MoveTo(waypoint.Position)
			print("wall2")
			repeat
				wait()
				print(NPCHumanoid:GetState())
			until
			NPCHumanoid:GetState() ~= Enum.HumanoidStateType.Running
			print("4")
		end
	end
end

while wait(0.1) do
	local player,distance = GetNearestPlayer()
	if player and player.Character then
		Move(player,distance)
	end
end

[TheESPPlayerSeemoney (let)]

HumanoidStateType.Running doesn’t mean the humanoid is actually running.

local rig = workspace.Rig
print(rig.Humanoid:GetState())

This will always return “Running” even if the rig doesn’t move.
And It is because humanoid’s statetype is always Running when humanoid is standing still or is running.

( im saying that humanoidstatetype returns running when the rig is idle or running )
( theres no stateType for idle )

[CaelmDev (Caelm)]

is there a way to work around this by checking if they are actually running?

[ew_iscool (goober)]

i used a rather dodgy method to check if the NPC was standing still, which was checking if their humanoidrootpart’s assemblylinearvelocity.Magnitude < 1

if theres any better methods out there, lmk

[eatabler0ck (eatablerock)]

local idle = false
humanoid.Running:Connect(function(movespeed)
    if movespeed <= 0 then
        idle = true
    else
        idle = false
    end
end)