Broken AI for pathfinding and chasing player.

[autumn trout]

I have a AI script for a character that detects players and does some patroling from parts to parts randomly. The problem I noticed is that over time the AI and chasing becomes laggy for the npc.

this one is the chasing

and this one is the patrol

here's the script for the ai

it has many functions

[noble frost]

so the problem is like

he sometimes bugs?

[autumn trout]

not sometimes

but when the script continues running after a long time the ai and chase starts to bug out

[noble frost]

uhh so

your using runservice.heartbeat by overloading it by using it too much

[autumn trout]

that's what's causing it to bug out?

[noble frost]

your running the detection logic every single frame like 60+ times per second which includes the distance calculations for all the players and fov angle calculations using math.acos i think

thats like

expensive

or

also our main loop calls patrol() or chase() continuously without proper delays, potentially creating new paths constantly

your

wtf

@autumn trout

[autumn trout]

what

[noble frost]

your main loop calls patrol() or chase() continuously without proper delays, potentially creating new paths constantly

also

[mental sluice]

** You are now Level 1! **

[fervent raft]

congrats

[autumn trout]

so i should give it like a wait time for these functions

[noble frost]

your calling chase() both in hearbeat detection and in the main loop btw

[autumn trout]

so what should i do?

[noble frost]

hmm

[autumn trout]

i got to a conclusion that the functions need a wait time of eg 0.5 sec?

[noble frost]

no wait

replace the hearbeat logic with timed loop

like

spawn(function()
while true do
-- your detection script functions
task.wait(0.2)
end)

end)

smth liket his

also fix ur main loop

spawn(function()
while true do
if not chasing then
patrol()
end
task.wait(0.1) -- add this for proper delay
end
end)

[autumn trout]

this is all i need to do then?

[noble frost]

add a pathcooldown

idk try those

[autumn trout]

pathcooldown? as in a function that makes a cooldown whenever the model trouches a part of the patrol parts?

[noble frost]

give me like

10 mins

ima check the script

and fix it for u

[autumn trout]

alr thx

[noble frost]

try this

@autumn trout

anything?

[autumn trout]

imma put it in

oops

i think you forgot to close it?

[noble frost]

ops

[noble frost]

did u copy the whole thing

its closed

add end)

[autumn trout]

let me try again

alr

[noble frost]

anything?

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[autumn trout]

this is the chase

i was hoping to make it like piggy ai tho piggy ai knows where the player is

[noble frost]

o

i still have no idea with pathfinding

i suck with those

but

i can borrow you mine