Jittering with following path

Unity Engine
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I developed my own pathfinding system and walking system that follows the designated path.
One issue i’ve been having is making it smooth in certain situations. In most situations, it’s great, but because it’s a grid based path system I get it zig zagging back and forth due to the nature of how the nodes are placed.

Here’s a little mp4 Gyazo clip of it: http://i.gyazo.com/cc84a7470bb96d7670cdb390ff9d0ec9.mp4

Does anyone have any tips on how to handle this? I’ve looked into bezier curves but haven’t been sure if it’s what I need. I still need it to be accurate to the path.

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Fixed by making the character move to the average position of 3 points (the previous path point, the current target point, and the future point) so if there’s a zig zag path, it’ll average it out. The zig zagging is about 95% gone at that point, so then I made it so the character rotates slower when he’s rotating lower amounts. So if he rotates 180 degrees it’s at full speed, but if he’s rotating at about 10 degrees its pretty slow, that way it hides the little bit of zig zag that was left.

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