Im making a zombie and when ever it is chasing a player and it gets close, it stutters behind the player. I know this is because of some issue where the server thinks your player is there vs where your player actually is on your client, is there any way to fix this issue? I have literally seen games from 10 years ago that don’t have this issue at all
A method for making hostile NPCs is to,
Have it path find towards the player when the zombie is not visible, such making a raycast between the player and zombie- if the zombie isnt visible to the player, the zombie PATH FINDS to the player, but when zombie is visible to the player, simply use the humanoid:MoveTo() to make the zombie run smoothly to, PREFERABLY, the front of the player.
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I’ll try this out and I’ll let you know if I have any issues, thanks
I’ve made it work but, any ideas on how to make it follow the “front” of the player? it appears that it still stutters behind me
local Players: Players = game:GetService("Players")
local Workspace: Workspace = game:GetService("Workspace")
local RunService: RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local ServerScriptService: ServerScriptService = game:GetService("ServerScriptService")
local modules: Folder = ServerScriptService.Modules
local EntityController = require(modules.EntityController)
local SimplePath = require(modules.SimplePath)
local entity: Model = script.Parent
local entityHumanoid: Humanoid = entity.Humanoid
local humanoidRootPart: Part = entity.HumanoidRootPart
local ATTACK_RANGE: number = 3
local ATTACK_DAMAGE: number = 4
local ATTACK_COOLDOWN: number = .1
local attackCooldown: boolean = false
local Path = SimplePath.new(entity)
Path.Visualize = true
local raycastParams: RaycastParams = RaycastParams.new()
raycastParams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Exclude
raycastParams.CollisionGroup = "Zombie"
local function attackPlayer(character: Model?)
if attackCooldown then
return
end
if character then
local humanoid: Humanoid = character:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid")
if humanoid then
humanoid:TakeDamage(ATTACK_DAMAGE)
attackCooldown = true
task.delay(ATTACK_COOLDOWN, function()
attackCooldown = false
end)
end
end
end
while true do
local nearestCharacter: Model? = EntityController:getNearestCharacter(humanoidRootPart.Position)
local nearestPlayer: Player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(nearestCharacter)
raycastParams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {script.Parent, nearestCharacter}
local raycastResult: RaycastResult = Workspace:Raycast(humanoidRootPart.Position, nearestCharacter.PrimaryPart.Position - humanoidRootPart.Position, raycastParams)
if not raycastResult then
entityHumanoid:MoveTo(nearestCharacter.PrimaryPart.Position)
else
Path:Run(nearestCharacter.PrimaryPart.Position)
end
if (humanoidRootPart.Position - nearestCharacter.PrimaryPart.Position).Magnitude <= ATTACK_RANGE then
attackPlayer(nearestCharacter)
end
humanoidRootPart:SetNetworkOwner(nil)
task.wait(.1)
end
I think u have to get the lookvector of
nearestCharacter.PrimaryPart and add a small value
You need to pathfind when the raycast hits something that isn’t the target, not when it’s nil. If it filters the target, it may hit parts behind the target.
if not raycastResult or rayCastResult.Instance ~= nearsestCharacter.PrimaryPart then --//Hit wall.
Path:Run(nearestCharacter.PrimaryPart.Position)
else --//No pathing required.
entityHumanoid:MoveTo(nearestCharacter.PrimaryPart.Position)
end
If it is still stuttering, consider forcing the network owner of the NPC to the server with BasePart:SetNetworkOwner(nil). It would be ideal to have client-sided NPCs, but that might be a little complicated.
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Set the network owner to nil (the server) and it should stop the stuttering.
ZombiePart:SetNetworkOwner(nil) (do for all parts of the zombie)
These two links should give you info on it:
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