How would I go about making a tracking missile / part?

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#12

He literally wants to create a tracking sustem

#13

Again, CFrame is the only thing I can think of right now. Or maybe other physics constraints which you can take a look of it here.

#14

I know. My answer may not be clear but if you read and understand how CFrame works, then my answer could work. How about you share us your idea here?

#15

Im not saying you should create one (that’d be nice tho), im asking how would I make one…

#16

So, one of the steps is having a “lookat” cframe, so from the base of the Missile position and then the Part Position. You’d need to have it on a loop or detect if the part has changed position.

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#17

I’m not a professional scripter so I’m not really sure how, sorry maybe you could look for how real rockets work and recreate that in studio? Here’s how they do

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#18

Also do you want the system to be 100% accurate or have a error margin? If it’s the second I would create a part that is at the coordinates of the HumaniidRootPart that is way bigger than the player and make the missile go in any place of the part

#19

So, I did a small script. Is this how you would want it? Though It’s best to not use tweens as the speed increases if the Target is Far.

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#20

that looks great, it could use a bit of tinkering but thats very nice, can I have it?

#21

Sure, here you go.

local TS = game:GetService("TweenService")

local S = game.Workspace.Start
local E = game.Workspace.End
local F = game.Workspace.Follow

F.Position = S.Position
game:GetService("RunService").Heartbeat:Connect(function()
	F.CFrame = CFrame.new(F.Position, E.Position)
end)

E:GetPropertyChangedSignal("Position"):Connect(function()
	TS:Create(F, TweenInfo.new(1, Enum.EasingStyle.Linear, Enum.EasingDirection.InOut), {Position = E.Position}):Play()
end)
#22

is there a way to make the part orient itself towards the end part?

#23

This code has a number of issues:

  • Tweens are not best to used in this scenario. I think it can be performance heavy as you are creating a new tween every time the target moves.
  • If the missile or part is close to the target, notice that it moves slowly. The missile should move with a constant speed.

@BreezeOnTheDoor if you want the part to orient itself towards the target, then you need to use CFrame or any other physics constraints.

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#24

do you know how I could do it then?

#25

Yeah, I know. I literally just said that when I was sending the script.

#26

The best way is to use physics. You could skip all the CFrame nonsense unless you want to be precise. Use align position and align orientation, update them every frame.

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#27

the thing is idk how I would actually make it track… and like I said, I got barely any experience with physics and stuff… so do you know a way I could track it with those?

#28

I am not going to give you a direct solution to your problem, but I could give my two cents on how to approach this goal. I recommend read this tutorial about understanding CFrames at a basic level so you know what functions to use in this scenario.

#29

@BreezeOnTheDoor read the link I’ve sent here to understand how to use physics constraints.

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#30

If you really wanted to use CFrames, you should do this every frame:

  • Find magnitude between missile and tracker
  • Set CFrame so every frame the magnitude is slowly reduced
  • use CFrame.lookat() to orient the tracker

But what you should do is use:

#31

alr, but im wondering how I should use those physics stuff to track? like where would I start? How would I fill out those parameters