Help with my NPC not moving to a specific location

[wheat patrol]

i'm LEGIT cooked ive been trying everything to fix this so help is REALLY appreciated

what i was trying to do was the NPC is supposed to go to a location where bro would ask for coffee then waits for 30 seconds to give the player time to make said coffee. if the player does give it on time, NPC pays player then leaves and goes back to his spawnLocation before despawning, letting another NPC spawn again.

but BRO IS NOT MOVING. everything works fine its just that bro is not moving at all

heres the script

couldnt put it in the post cuz character limit

Help with my NPC not moving to a specific location

[karmic mason]

any warnings or errors?

[wheat patrol]

nothing

[leaden pecan]

is this ai code

[wheat patrol]

nope

[leaden pecan]

looks quite like ai to me

[wheat patrol]

i watched multiple tutorials on yt and mixed it

[karmic mason]

so you did not write this code yourself?

[leaden pecan]

"Add a proximity prompt for player interaction" sounds like chat gpt

[wheat patrol]

typed it out and did some changes to it

[karmic mason]

it's probably chatgpt

[leaden pecan]

maybe the code for the tutorials was written with chat GPT

i really dont want to believe that

[karmic mason]

it has an infinite loop in it, spawning infinite npcs at a rate of 1 per second

[wheat patrol]

oh dang

[wheat patrol]

gotta be the startNPCInteraction in the end

[karmic mason]

wtf is this code ```lua
while true do
startNPCInteraction()
task.wait(1)
end

...
local function startNPCInteraction()
local npc = npcTemplate:Clone()
npc.Parent = game.Workspace
npc:SetPrimaryPartCFrame(CFrame.new(spawnLocation))
npc.PrimaryPart = npc:FindFirstChild("HumanoidRootPart")
...```

[leaden pecan]

using local function before definition?

that doesnt work

[wheat patrol]

a sign that im cooked

[karmic mason]

that's not the point, i put it like that for reading order. the loop calls the function, immediate next question is what is that function doing

and it... clones the npc? with no yield?

[wheat patrol]

spawns npc

with clone

[leaden pecan]

its quite a strange way to structure code

but whats the problem

[karmic mason]

1 every second?

[wide epoch]

** You are now Level 26! **

[leaden pecan]

the npc move function yields

[wheat patrol]

npc stuck at spawnLocation coords

[wheat patrol]

nah what i was trying to do was if the NPC returned to its spawnLocation after NPC interaction it waits 1 second before despawning and spawning a new one

[karmic mason]

perhaps because of the 200 other npcs spawning every second?

[wheat patrol]

but im pretty sure i done messed up big time

[leaden pecan]

the npc function yields

new npcs wont spawn

[karmic mason]

that's before pointing out your task.delay is going to throw an error if the npc is destroyed less than 30 seconds after they are spawned, but bigger issues first y'know

[leaden pecan]

task.delay?

where

[karmic mason]

also if i recall, you need to move to the second waypoint following a pathfinder computeasync because the first waypoint is the current location

[wheat patrol]

task.delay(30, function() if proximityPrompt.Parent then chatWithPlayer(npc, "This is taking too long. I'm out of here.") proximityPrompt:Destroy() moveToLocation(npc, spawnLocation) task.wait(1) npc:Destroy() end end) end

[karmic mason]

and then is funny if that's the case because then it immediately reaches its destination

[wheat patrol]

so i should rework the pathfinding part?

[leaden pecan]

how experienced are you with scripting

[wheat patrol]

first time doing pathfinding

cuz i just mainly do some simple scripts

[karmic mason]

i think you should read the documentation before reworking anything. https://create.roblox.com/docs/characters/pathfinding

    -- Initially move to second waypoint (first waypoint is path start; skip it)
    nextWaypointIndex = 2

and
https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/Path#GetWaypoints

The array is arranged in the order of waypoints from the path start to path end

[wheat patrol]

ight thanks for that

once im done with this i should probably stick with simple scripts

[karmic mason]

mixing chatgpt with youtube tutorials is a volatile mix. its easier to just simply learn how to code

[wheat patrol]

can i like use parts instead of coords

[karmic mason]

yes

there are ways to do that