How do I make physics based grenades start with velocity?

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I am begginer scripter,

I want to make a grenade launcher everything’s been great so far but I just hit a roadblock.
The way that it works is that you start charging by holding mouse and when you release all of the accumulated grenades will start being shot.

I have already looked for solutions, but for some reason the grenade that I put on replicated storage does not execute the script attached to it, and manipulating CFrame with LookVector from the variable of the dupplicated grenade only affects it initial position.

What I want to achieve is for the grenades to be shot with an initial velocity with physics but I can’t find anything like that

Here’s my code
local tool = script.Parent
local handle = tool:WaitForChild(“Handle”)
wait(1)
local player = script.Parent.Parent.Parent
local gui = player.PlayerGui
local ammoGui = gui.GrenadeLauncher
local character = player.Character
local ammo = script.Parent.Ammo.Value
local reserve = script.Parent.Reserve.Value
local charging = false
local equipped = false
local activated = false

function updateGui()
	ammoGui.Ammo.Text = ammo
	ammoGui.Reserve.Text = reserve
end


tool.Activated:Connect(function()
	activated = true
	if not charging then
		charging = true
		for _ = 0, 50, 1 do
			if not equipped or reserve == 0 or not activated then
				break
			end
			
			ammo = ammo + 1
			reserve = reserve - 1
			wait(0.05)
			updateGui()
		end
		charging = false
		
		for _ = ammo,1,-1 do
			if not equipped then
				break
			end
			local pill = game.ReplicatedStorage.Pill:Clone()
			pill.Parent = game.Workspace
			pill.CFrame = tool.Handle.CFrame
			ammo = ammo - 1
			updateGui()
			wait(0.1)
		end
		ammo = 0
		updateGui()
	end
	updateGui()
end)

tool.Deactivated:Connect(function()
	activated = false
end)

tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	equipped = true
	ammoGui.Enabled = true
end)

tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	equipped = false
	ammoGui.Enabled = false
end)

Thanks in advance for your time!

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To create an arc projectile with only engine physics, you may use basepart.Velocity:

local plr = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = plr:GetMouse()

tool.Activated:Connect(function()
   local projectile = tool.Handle:Clone()
   projectile.Parent = workspace
   projectile.Velocity = mouse.UnitRay.Direction * x -- variable for the amount of force exerted.
end)
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okay thanks I’ll give it a try
EDIT: It worked just as I wanted thank you so much

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