Why is my lerp going faster on my npc the closer he gets to the player

[Bob_Knob]

so ive been using lerp for my npc movement and his movement speed is set to a number and shouldn’t change I even made it a constant and it still changes speed based on player distance here is the npc and the code:
extends AnimatableBody2D
@onready var raycast = $RayCast2D
const MOVE_SPEED = 10
var inray = false
@onready var sprite = $AnimatedSprite2D

Called every frame. ‘delta’ is the elapsed time since the previous frame.

func _process(delta: float) → void:
var location: Vector2 = raycast.get_collision_point()
if raycast.is_colliding():
sprite.play(“run”)
position.x = lerp(position.x, location.x, delta * MOVE_SPEED)

if raycast.is_colliding() == false:
	$AnimatedSprite2D.play("idle") 

if location.x - position.x > 0:
	sprite.flip_h = false
elif location.x - position.x < 0:
	sprite.flip_h = true

[gertkeno]

lerp’s third parameter is a percentage of how much a or b to return, if 0.0 it will return a, if 1.0 it will return b, if 0.5 it will return a value between a and b. In your code it does not move by pixels as you want, it moves by a percentage of the distance between the two points.

Written out lerp is as follows

func lerp(a, b, t: float) -> float:
    return a + (b - a) * t

You want to use move_toward, and you will have to increase your MOVE_SPEED to be a good pixels per second value, like 200.

position.x = move_toward(position.x, location.x, delta * MOVE_SPEED)

[Bob_Knob]

thanks