How to bend a roblox beam through 3 parts, OR bend it through two parts Upwards relative to an Equation

[ldaspp]

You can write your topic however you want, but you need to answer these questions:

1. What do you want to achieve? Keep it simple and clear!

I want to make a prediction for where my projectile will go

2. What is the issue? Include screenshots / videos if possible!

The issue is information on Roblox beams happens to be very limited

3. What solutions have you tried so far? Did you look for solutions on the Developer Hub?

   People don’t ask these questions, and experimenting didn’t help.

[dthecoolest]

Using a Beam to Model Projectile Motion

So I’ve had this code for a while now and keep forgetting to post it. From the amount of questions about it on the devforum, I think it will be helpful for some people. The code is a little bit messy and unintuitive but it gets the job done. It’s a little hacky and I couldn’t figure out how to make it nicer while still being efficient (if anyone can make it better, please do so and post it here). This code was largely put together using projectile motion code from an old Roblox tool (slingshot …

[ldaspp]

So this code is for one of Roblox’s Natural projectiles or whatever they are called? The ones where they launch them in a direction with a force?

[dthecoolest]

Yep, projectile motion for projectiles with an initial velocity and the only force is gravity.

[ldaspp]

So what are launch angle and initial speed?
Ill find out the rest myself

[dthecoolest]

You can find those in the example code.

For the beam portion the only relevant one is the one function by EgoMoose beam projectile. Btw t1 is the end time of the projectile where the beam will end.

The angle is only for orienting the projectile

-- v0: initialVelocity(Vec3),   x0: initialPosition(Vec3),   t1: flightTime((+)number),   g: gravity((+)number)
function ProjectileLib.BeamProjectile(v0, x0, t1, g)