How to make a gun shot line display?

[Void_Trader (Blue_Cortex)]

I’m trying to get the gun tool I made to have a line that goes from the gun to the target.

Reference:

I’m not sure how to get this to work without raycasting

I tried finding a tutorial for my scenario.

Here’s the server-sided code (client sided code is literally just detecting the target of the click)

local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local Friendly = script.Parent:FindFirstChild("Friendly").Value
local Damage = script.Parent:FindFirstChild("Damage").Value
local Sound = script.Parent.Pistol.Pistol.Fired

script.Parent.Activation.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(plr, target)
	
	Sound:Play()
	
	if Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(target.Parent) ~= nil and Friendly == true then return end
	
	if target:IsDescendantOf(plr.Character) then
		print("Can't damage own player")
	else
		if target.Parent:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("Humanoid") then
			if target.Name == "Head" then
				target.Parent.Humanoid.Health -= Damage * 2
			else
				target.Parent.Humanoid.Health -= Damage				
			end
		end
	end
	
end)

Thanks

[vipkute0057 (Kute)]

If your gun is raycast based then you can use this code (for raycasting visualization):

How do you visualize a raycast as a part?

It is explained there. Basically, without that offset, the part would be in the middle. You want its back face to be at the origin. [image] The part would be positioned right where the origin is. Now, that post was using the old raycasting API. I suggest you use the new one now. -- for more info on these, check out: -- https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/function/WorldRoot/Raycast -- https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/datatype/RaycastParams local result = workspa…

[Void_Trader (Blue_Cortex)]

It isn’t using raycast, although if anyone can change the gun to be raycast based then it would work, but right now it’s just using the target of the mouse click.

[vipkute0057 (Kute)]

Well if it have an origin and the final position then you can still use it.
replace result.Position = your mouse.Hit
origin = where you fire
distance = (origin-position).Magnitude

[vipkute0057 (Kute)]

Tho I am still recommended you to switch from raycasting instead of using mouse.Hit. Its will help you later on customization and accuracy

[Void_Trader (Blue_Cortex)]

distance = (origin-position).Magnitude

what is position in this context?

[vipkute0057 (Kute)]

mouse.Hit.Position
character litmit stuff

[Void_Trader (Blue_Cortex)]

is this right?

local result = workspace:Raycast(EndPart)

			if result then
				local distance = (EndPart.Position - target.Position).Magnitude
				local p = Instance.new("Part")
				p.Anchored = true
				p.CanCollide = false
				p.Size = Vector3.new(0.1, 0.1, distance)
				p.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(EndPart, target.Position)*CFrame.new(0, 0, -distance/2)
			end

mouse.hit = target right

[vipkute0057 (Kute)]

If you dont use raycast now then remove the if statement and the variable result of the raycast above.

[Void_Trader (Blue_Cortex)]

It works but it goes to the center of the part it hits because i use .position

[vipkute0057 (Kute)]

Use mouse.Hit.Position instead of (your part that hit).Position