How can i have a part follow a player smoothly with a bit of lagging behind?

[olive pendant]

I tried using tweenservice but there doesnt seem to be any way to use that efficiently as you cant inject new end positions into a tween it seems and creating a new tween every frame is way too much computation and causes lag.

Apparently I can use lerp but im still trying to understand how that can be used for my case

[radiant sundial]

Use module script + loop

You can make variables for starting and ending positions, and continuously tween it

[olive pendant]

yeah but once you make a tween arent the start and end position set the same until you create a new one?

[dry parcel]

** You are now Level 4! **

[split steppe]

do u mean following u like a pet

[olive pendant]

yeah

all of the tutorials have it directly follow the player but i want it to catch up to the player once they stop

[drowsy tinsel]

like pet sim wehn you teleport somewhere?

[fresh thistle]

wdym by follow?

[olive pendant]

uh i dont play pet sim

i got it working on server side i think but its slightly laggy when following

hold on

this was what i was trying to do except theres a slight stuttering or lagging while it follows

[fresh thistle]

what do you use for this

[olive pendant]

lerp with runservice step

[fresh thistle]

is it on the server

[olive pendant]

yeah

[inland solstice]

AlignPosition object

[fresh thistle]

do it on the client

[inland solstice]

Its called delay

[inland solstice]

All he has to do is creatr AlignPosition object and attach it to the object and players humanoidrootpart via attachments

Then boom

[olive pendant]

yeah but then isnt it a bit of huge workaround to send the position values through firing events to server so everyone sees the same thing

[fresh thistle]

i dont like alignposition for non physics purposes

[fresh thistle]

no?

[inland solstice]

If he wants an offest there should be a setting inthe alignpos object, if nit then creatr a different part welded to the hrp and attach the delayed part to the object

[fresh thistle]

just tell every client

make this follow this player

once

[inland solstice]

That sounds inefficient

[fresh thistle]

you clearly have never done networking outside youtube tutorials

the biggest thing to keep in mind when making multiplayer for any game

is to handle as much things on the client as possible

[olive pendant]

isnt it the opposite in roblox

so that the client cant edit stuff

[fresh thistle]

no, thats only because of security concerns

[inland solstice]

Why not create a server script loop that uses tweenservice to constantly play a tween moving the part to a cframe offset to the hrp with enough speed to look delayed?

[fresh thistle]

but that doesnt matter for visuals or if you have server authentication

just dont be stupid and it wont be an issue

[fresh thistle]

aight u know what

just use alignposition at this point

🙏

[inland solstice]

Ts aint that hard bruh

[fresh thistle]

its not a good option but its the only option you guys seem to comprehend

and its better than any of the other abominations your suggesting

[inland solstice]

Then whats your solution?

[fresh thistle]

i said mine

[green swan]

making visual on server instead of client is stressing the server replicating that object to clients

[fresh thistle]

wha is your point

[green swan]

you're saying to do visual on clients instead of server, i assume replication?

[fresh thistle]

yes

[radiant sundial]

not if you have different values

if you continously have tweens being made then it shouldnt be a problem