help Trying to make NPC Walk along a Sidewalk

[XeroXipher]

Hello MTA...
Sorry for asking rookie questions so frequently.

So, I am trying to make NPC's on the map walk around.
I know I will have to give them a path to walk (Which I don't know how to do, but I'll get there).

Right now I am finding it hard to get my NPC to even move.
This is the very basic coding I have so far.

Pedestrians.lua

function pedLoad()
    local thePed = createPed ( 106,  2492, -1673, 13.25, 200)
    setPedAnimation(thePed, "ped", "walk_gang1", -1, true, true, false, true)
    outputChatBox("This command did something", player, 100, 255, 100)
    
end
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getResourceRootElement(), pedLoad )

Now this works properly:
 

 local thePed = createPed ( 106,  2492, -1673, 13.25, 200)

It creates my NPC and rotates him 200 degrees...
But the rest of the coding doesn't do anything.

 

I have tried setControlState:
 

function pedLoad()
    local thePed = createPed ( 106,  2492, -1673, 13.25, 200)
    setControlState(thePed, "walk", true)
    setControlState(thePed, "forwards", true)
    outputChatBox("This command did something", player, 100, 255, 100)
    
end
addEventHandler ( "onResourceStart", getResourceRootElement(), pedLoad )

And nothing happened...
I know with setControlState I also have to change his camera to move in different directions but I can't get him to move at all...

So, if someone could help me I would appreciate it.
Thank You.

[Addlibs]

The wiki's arguments list suggests setControlState only works on players, not any ped. Have you tried setPedControlState client-side? You can trigger it by firing off an event from the server that's handled on the client side.

This may need a lot of synchronisation code though, as a client won't receive this event when connecting after the resource was started, nor if the resource starts and triggers onResourceStart before the client side is ready.

[XeroXipher]

Honestly, I am still learning and up until now I have only worked with server sided scripts but I'll try it out as a client script.
Thanks for the advice.