Missile freaking out when attempting to track a target

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#1

So I’ve been lately trying to develop a tracking system for my missiles in a game I’m developing, and the code I’ve been using doesn’t appear to work. At all.

The video is in the link above.
As you can see in the video, the missile just freaks out upon launch. Like it is completely ignoring the code I’ve given it. At some point, the missile goes so out of target, that it isn’t even visible anymore. I am completely confused and lost about what to do.

It seems that not a lot of people have had the same problem I did, because I couldn’t find anything similar inside the forums.

So far I’ve tried removing the “AlignOrientation” constraint and using CFrame.LookAt instead of CFrame.new(position, position)

I’ll copy paste the code for the thrust/speed and the way the missile is meant to track the target (and register the hit).

local module = {}

function module.Thrust(enginePart)
	while enginePart.Parent == workspace do
		wait(game:GetService("RunService").Heartbeat)
		enginePart["Smoke Emitter"].ParticleEmitter.Enabled = true
		enginePart.LinearVelocity.Enabled = true
		enginePart.LinearVelocity.VectorVelocity = enginePart.CFrame.LookVector * 1000
		game.ReplicatedStorage.TriggerSeekerEvent:Fire()
	end
end

return module

(the script inside the missile runs the same code from the module)

local eventToListen = game.ReplicatedStorage.TriggerSeekerEvent
eventToListen.Event:Connect(function()
	local lookPart = script.Parent
	local Rs = game:GetService("RunService")
	local target = game.Workspace.Target
	local missilerayparams = RaycastParams.new()
	missilerayparams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Exclude
	missilerayparams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {lookPart}


	while lookPart.Parent == workspace do
		wait(Rs.Heartbeat)
		lookPart.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(lookPart.Position, target.Position)
		local ray = workspace:Raycast(lookPart.Position,lookPart.CFrame.LookVector*20,missilerayparams)
		if ray then
			print(lookPart.Name .. " Has Hit " .. tostring(ray.Instance) .. "!")
			game.ReplicatedStorage.targetDestroyedEvent:Fire()
			lookPart:Destroy()
			target:Destroy()
			
		end
	end
end)

Please help me! I have 0 idea on what to do.

Part not looking at a target despite constraint being told to do so
#2

Update: I fixed part of the problem.

I got rid of the “while enginePart.Parent == workspace do” part for the engine script, and that seemed to fix some of it, but now the missile points at the target for about half a second, then just goes around in circles for a while before actually chasing the target. Anyone know why that is? I’ll paste the updated code too.

local module = {}

function module.Thrust(enginePart)
		wait(game:GetService("RunService").Heartbeat)
		enginePart["Smoke Emitter"].ParticleEmitter.Enabled = true
		enginePart.LinearVelocity.Enabled = true
		enginePart.LinearVelocity.VectorVelocity = enginePart.CFrame.LookVector * 550
		game.ReplicatedStorage.TriggerSeekerEvent:Fire()
end

return module