Making a combat game with ranged weapons? FastCast may be the module for you!

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#1011

I was hoping for an official module update with extra functionality, but it’s nice of you to provide this anyway!

#1012

Same! Based on what I know and the updates over the past 2.5 years, the module can surely be improved in multiple ways.
I really hope @Xan_TheDragon decides to update it!

#1013

noice, I haven’t attempted my own implementation yet, but I’ll get onto it at some point too

#1014

Are you talking about the FastCastModule or Parralel Lua being not released? (I thought it was fully released)

#1015

Could anyone take the project and maintain it?

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#1016

Hey there, the bullets appearing far away is due to extremely long ray lengths for extremely high speed projectiles.

This is also tied in with the update loop problem that was mentioned previously somewhere in this topic. I have tried to do simulate(cast, 0 (deltatime), false) after the simulation connection to try and position it at the start but that had a lot of issues.

Ended up this hack from a previous post to position it at segment origin instead (bullet position in the past) and a lot of task.waits() for another issue (point blank shots)

Perhaps one day there could be some advanced task scheduling done perhaps 2 Runservice events in heartbeat and one in stepped. Maybe even task.defer().

But solution seems to work as is and the rest of the module works great :+1:.

#1017

The projectile is spawning ahead of its origin point for me, and this makes the trail look horrible. Anyone know what to do to fix this?

#1018

is it possible to change the speed of a bullet when penetrating through a wall? cause i got no clue how. (unless its the velocity thing i see in the variables of certain functions)

#1019

Blacklist in Raycast params is decrapted it says on the debug gun you provided

#1020

Is there any way to perfectly validate a cast? I tried using the start and end positions with a projectile motion equation and using tick() to log the start and end times of a cast and using them for t, but the results seem to differ by a good ±10 in the position compared to the simulation.

local function projectileMotionEquation(g, v, initialPosition, t)
	return 0.5 * g * t ^ 2 + v * t + initialPosition
end
#1021

I am not going to maintain FastCast but I do have this if FastCast where to ever break. (I think FastCast is in a pretty solid state I would not expect it to break for a while… a long while…)

#1022

Have you figured this out by now? Much appreciated if you have and could share.

#1023

I think i just suck, though I could not understand this. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :yawning_face: :yawning_face: :yawning_face: :triumph: :triumph: :triumph:

#1024

It doesn’t seem to be possible :frowning:

#1025

How do you handle replication?

Why doesn't my gun shoot the bullet the right way?
#1026

Is there a way to combat bad hitreg with moving npcs. some of the projectiles just go straight through the npc on the client

#1028

Do I must make a new caster (server script) for each gun the players have? (for example, 10 players - 10 server scripts)

Or can I have one server script handling all players’ shootings? (10 players - 1 server script but 10 local scripts)

#1029

how would I go about using this for a model rather than a part?

#1030

1 server script. Just use remote events and have that 1 script do the casting and damaging.

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#1031

I have a quick question. How can I change my projectiles’ colors on 1 caster instead of having individual casters have different colors because it causes lag. I have tried changing it from the projectile container and then tried taking it out, changing the color, and putting it back it but also didnt work some how. Is there a sort of way to change the custonprojectiles’ color with only 1 caster? Or is there no way?

Gun hit detection not working