Bullet Dropping when at low speeds. Trying to find a way to make bullet unaffected by gravity

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#1

Hi. I am trying to make a gun. I am having trouble with the bullet gravity. When shot it drops because the speed is low. Is it possible to make the bullet unaffected by gravity? I tried looking around the devforum but I couldn’t find anything. FYI I’m not using raycast the bullet is a part.

#2

Try making the bullet massless?

#3

Ok. I’ll let you know what happens.

#4

It didn’t work I actually tried it earlier.

#5

You should try instead having a LocalScript translate the bullets cframe every render step, in the same direction throughout it’s lifetime. The server can tell everybody the bullet’s initial CFrame, and then the velocity.

i don’t have experience making gun games e

#6

Do you have any examples of how I should do that?

#7

Something like this maybe.

game:GetService("RunService").RenderStepped:Connect(function(dt)
    for _, bullet in pairs(workspace.ActiveBullets:GetChildren()) do
        local part = bullet.Part
        local speed = bullet:GetAttribute("StudsPerSecond")
        part.CFrame += speed * dt -- dt is the time since the last render step (so bullets move at the same rate for every computer)
    end
end)

game.ReplicatedStorage.SpawnBullet.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(bullet, cframe, speed)
    bullet:SetAttribute("StudsPerSecond", speed or 1)
    bullet.Part.CFrame = cframe
    bullet.Parent = workspace.ActiveBullets
end)
#8

I’ll try. Thanks for your help.

#9

Before I try this do you know how to tween bullets? If so can you tell me how?

#10

I don’t think tweening bullets is a good idea, since you don’t know where the bullet will end up. Somebody could walk infront of it before it ends. Also, it wouldn’t be a good idea to tween the bullet for 100 seconds and see what it touches first to get around that, since it’s hard to get a lot of information out of a tween. Unlike if you manually increment the CFrame yourself, you can adjust things as needed.

#11

Okay I will try what you gave earlier.

#12

Use an upwards-facing BodyForce in the bullet to counteract gravity.

Alternatively, use FastCast. It’s the best of both worlds between raycasting and physically simulated bullets.

#13

I’m not really familiar with BodyForces. Can you give me a small script example?