How to make smooth bullets for sentries

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  1. What do you want to achieve?
    I’ve been wanting to make a turret/sentry that shoots enemies automatically.

  2. What is the issue?
    The Bullets.
    For so long i have searched, i can’t seem to find a way to make bullets be accurate, they may bounce off without trigering the touched event, or i would need to make a hitbox for them, which consumes resources.

  3. What solutions have you tried so far?
    I tried doing the hitbox trick, it works but makes an unbearable amount of lag due to the large hitbox and small bullet.

the code is as simple as a
local p = rs.bullet:Clone
and making it go towards the target.

Any help is appreciated.

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most turrets does not show the physical bullet like Typical colors 2 and Noobs vs dummies because there is no point. simply use raycast for the job.

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Yeah i’ve heard of raycast, what i want is to replicate the bullets and make then travel to the enemy. Unless raycast is the absolute ultimate way to do it, im willing to go further

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even for traveling bullets you should still use raycasting. For an instand bullet you would raycast from point A to the target. However what you want to do is have the bullet travel. Depending on how realistic you want the bullet to move you might need one physics kinematics equation. Only if you want it to fall due to gravityl tho. If youre find with it moving in a straight line you can just use the direction vector. Either way you do it youd need to raycast each frame and move the bullet by a speed * change in time between frames. You would only raycast to the position of the bullet in the next frame. This is what the code would look like

local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

local currPos = bullet.Position
local nextPos
local bulletStudsPerSec = 50
RunService.HeartBeat:Connect(function(dt)
    nextPos = currPos * (bullet.CFrame.LookVector * bulletStudsPerSec * dt)
    local success, hit = pcall( function()
        return workspace:Raycast(currPos, nextPos - currPos, params)
    end)

    if hit then
        *bullet hit something code goes here youre gonna have to figure this part out and destroy
         and stop the code from running for the bullet.
    end
        
end)
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Alright man thanks, ill see what i can do.

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Yup, i managed to find something that works with what you gave me

connection = RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function(dt)
local currPos = bullet.Position
local nextPos = bullet.CFrame.LookVector * dt * bulletStudsPerSec
local hit = workspace:Raycast(currPos, nextPos, params)

  	if hit then
  		bullet:Destroy()
  		connection:Disconnect()
  		if hit.Instance.Parent then
  			if hit.Instance.Parent:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
  					hit.Instance.Parent.Humanoid:TakeDamage(20)
  			end
  		end
  	else
  		bullet.Position = currPos + nextPos
  	end
  end)

Thanks for the help man