Hello, I’m new at scripting and I am attempting to make a fighting/fps game. Though I have encountered an issue with this arm cannon I’m making.
What I want to achieve: A fully functional arm cannon (like mega man’s)
The issue: When I shoot the arm cannon its projectiles bounces when they hit a part. And I want its projectiles to not fall or arc. I can increase the velocity of the part but I want the players to see the projectiles.
What I have tried so far: I have tried looking it up on the devforum and google yet couldn’t find anything.
My script for the movement of the projectile:
local ReplicatedStorage = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local remoteEvent = ReplicatedStorage:WaitForChild("ShotEvent")
local ServerStorage = game:GetService("ServerStorage")
remoteEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, gunPos, mosPos)
local bullet = Instance.new("Part")
bullet.Name = "Bullet"
bullet.Parent = game.Workspace
bullet.Shape = Enum.PartType.Ball
bullet.Size = Vector3.new(0.8, 0.30, 0.8)
bullet.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Teal")
bullet.Material = ("Neon")
local damageScript = ServerStorage:FindFirstChild("Damage"):Clone()
damageScript.Parent = bullet
local attacker = Instance.new("StringValue")
attacker.Name = "Attacker"
attacker.Parent = bullet
attacker.Value = player.Name
local distance = (mosPos).magnitude
local speed = 500
bullet.CFrame = CFrame.new(gunPos, mosPos)
bullet.Velocity = bullet.CFrame.lookVector * speed
end)
You could try raycasting. Usually when making a system like this I will shoot a ray from the gun, then return the part hit and destination position. Then simply tween the bullet from the players gun to the destination. You can easily get a straight line shot and allow the bullet to disappear and not bounce when it hits the target.
Below is a straight forward way to create a ray that shoots from the parts front face 50 studs forward.
-- Cast the ray
local part = workspace.Part
local raycastResult = workspace:Raycast(part.Position, part.CFrame.LookVector*50)
Then from raycastResult there are 4 parameters you can return like this:
if(raycastResult)then
print("Object/terrain hit:", raycastResult.Instance:GetFullName())
print("Hit position:", raycastResult.Position)
print("Surface normal at the point of intersection:", raycastResult.Normal)
print("Material hit:", raycastResult.Material.Name)
end
You want the raycastResult.Position to get the spot that the gun shot at.
Alright I checked out the ray-casting thing. Though if I used ray casting wouldn’t it just shoot out a beam? Is there a way I could add a script where if my already made projectiles if they collide with something their transparency sets to 1 and you can’t collide with it? (Sorry If I sound dumb like I said, I’m new at this stuff)
You could try adding a .Touched event if you want to do it that way. But I would really recommend you using rays because that’s how 99.99% of shooter games do it. Also rays aren’t physical beams, its the act of sending out an invisible ray from a position in a specified direction with a defined length. And once cast, you can detect if the ray hits a part and the position that it hit.
