Hello , I am creating a beam that goes directly to where the mouse is pointing. Everything was going well until I came up with the idea of adding a curve to the beam. I want the beam to travel in the same direction but with a slight curve. I have been researching various sources about “curves” and even checked similar scripts with a similar idea, but the beam seems to curve in a different direction. I want the beam to have the same slight curve no matter where I point my mouse.
The red line represents the direction I want, which corresponds to where the mouse points.
Script (what i was trying):
local function BlastCurve(Character,MouseHit)
local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local HumanoidRootPart = Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local Ball = script:WaitForChild("KiBlast"):Clone()
Ball.Parent = workspace:WaitForChild("Debris")
Ball.Parent = Debris_Folder
Ball.CFrame = HumanoidRootPart.CFrame
Ball.CFrame = HumanoidRootPart.CFrame * CFrame.new(0,0,0)
Ball.CFrame = CFrame.new(Ball.position, MouseHit) + CFrame.new(Ball.position, MouseHit).LookVector * 5
local vel = Instance.new("BodyVelocity",Ball)
vel.Velocity = Ball.CFrame.LookVector * 80
vel.MaxForce = Vector3.new(1e6,1e6,1e6)
vel.Parent = Ball
spawn(function()
while true do
vel.Velocity = vel.Velocity - Vector3.new(2,0,0)
wait(0.01)
end
end)
end
Sorry bro, but I don’t have a video to demonstrate exactly how I want it. What I’m looking for is to make the sphere move directly towards the position of the mouse cursor using “BodyVelocity” while adding a subtle curve to its path (similar to the shape of the red line in the image I sent you).
OOH I think I know what you’re looking for! I think you may want to use Bezier curves for this. Usually, the modules that provide such functionality return a list of points, to which you could move the projectile to, example of the movement velocity would be: CFrame.lookAt(proj.Position, bezierPoint).LookVector * 100
You just loop through the list of the points with a certain delay between moving to each and it should work, I believe.
A search on the devforum should provide you some bezier curve modules to work with.
local a = HumanoidRootPart.x-mouse.hit.position.x
local z = HumanoidRootPart.z-mouse.hit.position.z
-- parabola: y=(z/(a)^2)x^2
-- line: y= (z/a)x
local x= 0
while x< a do
local pointoffset =(z/(a)^2)x^2
local attachment.position = vector3.new(x+HumanoidRootPart.x,somerandomY,HumanoidRootPart.z+pointoffset)
x += 1
-- align position to attachment position
end
only tested on graphing calculator and bad at math, but I believe it should work.
Yes, I did some research on Bezier curves, but decided to use BodyVelocity, because with “Bezier curves” I noticed that the fireballs had different speeds depending on where the mouse was pointing. For example, when I aimed further, the fireball became extremely fast, while when I did the opposite, the speed decreased.
That’s why I mentioned to use something around CFrame.lookAt(proj.Position, bezierPoint).LookVector * 100 as the Velocity of a BodyVelocity, it’d ensure that the velocity is constant no matter the distance.
I already put your script, but I don’t know what to do now
local Debris_Folder = workspace:WaitForChild("Debris")
local function Ball(Character,MouseHit)
local Humanoid = Character:WaitForChild("Humanoid")
local HumanoidRootPart = Character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart")
local Ball = script:WaitForChild("KiBlast"):Clone()
Ball.CFrame = HumanoidRootPart.CFrame
Ball.Parent = Debris_Folder
local function Curve(t,P0,P1,P2)
local A = P0:Lerp(P1,t)
local B = P1:Lerp(P2,t)
return A:Lerp(B,t);
end
local Mid = (HumanoidRootPart.Position - MouseHit.p).Magnitude
local Part0 = HumanoidRootPart.Position + Vector3.new(0,0,-3)
local Part1 = (HumanoidRootPart.CFrame * CFrame.new(-Mid/4,Mid/4,Mid/4)).p
local Part2 = MouseHit.p
--for i = 0,1,0.045 do
-- local Bezier = Curve(i,Part0,Part1,Part2)
-- Ball.Position = Bezier
-- task.wait()
--end
local vel = Instance.new("BodyVelocity",Ball)
vel.Velocity = CFrame.lookAt(Ball.Position, MouseHit.p).LookVector * 100
vel.MaxForce = Vector3.new(1e6,1e6,1e6)
vel.Parent = Ball
end
, I am creating a beam that goes directly to where the mouse is pointing. Everything was going well until I came up with the idea of adding a curve to the beam. I want the beam to travel in the same direction but with a slight curve. I have been researching various sources about “curves” and even checked similar scripts with a similar idea, but the beam seems to curve in a different direction. I want the beam to have the same slight curve no matter where I point my mouse.
