Missile Turret Won't Follow Target Accurately?

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#1

I am making a missile turret that will be used to track planes that close to it via following said planes, and then eventually launching a missile at them.

However, I am having problems getting the turret to accurately track/follow targets. The yaw works half-well, and then stops really working when the part is in almost a “blind spot” of the turret (which I don’t want, I want the turret to be able to move 360 degrees fully), and it won’t even attempt to adjust the pitch based on the height/elevation of the target… You can see the above scenarios in the below video:

I am using the following script:

local hinge = script.Parent.movers.spin
local hinge2 = script.Parent.movers.elevate
local hingeBase = hinge and hinge.Attachment0
local target = workspace.target1

local function calculateServoAngle(hinge,target)
	local Turn,Tilt,Roll = hinge.Attachment1.WorldCFrame:ToObjectSpace(CFrame.new(hinge.Attachment0.WorldPosition, target.Position)):ToOrientation();
	return math.deg(Turn)-90;
end;

local function calculateServoAngle2(hinge,target)
	local Turn,Tilt,Roll = hinge.Attachment1.WorldCFrame:ToObjectSpace(CFrame.new(hinge.Attachment0.WorldPosition, target.Position)):ToOrientation();
	return math.deg(Tilt)-90;
end;

game["Run Service"].Heartbeat:Connect(function()
	if hingeBase then
		--local origin = hingeBase.CFrame
		--local displacement = target.Position - hingeBase.Position

		local turn = calculateServoAngle(hinge,target)
		hinge.TargetAngle = -turn
		
		local tilt = calculateServoAngle2(hinge2,target)
		hinge2.TargetAngle = tilt
	end
end)

Here is the model itself:
samturret.rbxm (16.8 KB)

Not sure what I am doing wrong here, am I screwing up the setup for the hinges?

1 Like
#2

Do not use math.degree

use math.rad instead

#3

This is not that helpful, no offense.

#4

I believe that the CFrames Rotations are actually still aaplied when using attachment.WorldCFrame, Instead why not use
Cframe.new(attachment.WorldPosition) then do the operation

#5

This resulted in the turning of the turret getting even more broken.

#6

my bad I figured out that by turning the CFrames Lookvector upwards and then applying :ToEulersXYZ Should give us the Roll of the hinge by using Yaw instead (In which the only important part about a hinge is the Roll), so I came up with this

local function calculateServoAngle(hinge,target)
	local Turn,Tilt,Roll = (hinge.Attachment1.WorldCFrame:ToObjectSpace(CFrame.new(hinge.Attachment0.WorldPosition, target.Position))*CFrame.Angles(math.rad(90),0,0)):ToEulerAnglesXYZ();
	return math.deg(Turn)+90;
end;

local function calculateServoAngle2(hinge,target)
	local Turn,Tilt,Roll = (hinge.Attachment1.WorldCFrame:ToObjectSpace(CFrame.new(hinge.Attachment0.WorldPosition, target.Position))*CFrame.Angles(math.rad(90),0,0)):ToEulerAnglesXYZ();
	return math.deg(Turn)-90;
end;

I was originally going to use ToEulerAngles:(enum.RotationOrder.ZYX) but I forgot that when using lookat that the Roll is basically never applied