I am trying to create turrets similar to those in starscape (video attached) and am not sure how to approach this. I have tried using a combination of CFrame and hinges but I could not get it to work.
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If you wanna go for player controlled turrets, I’d honestly skip hinges cuz they’re tricky to sync and can get clunky fast, CFrame is the way to go. 
You can rotate the turret using CFrame.lookAt based on the player’s mouse.Hit.Position just get the turret’s base position & then point it towards the mouse hit and if you want it smoother, you can Lerp between the current CFrame and the target one.
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Thank you for the response! This does help me a lot, but I would also like the base to rotate along with the barrel and I’m just not quite sure how I would do that?
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You can just change the base’s Y axis, and change all of the barrel’s axis, since CFrame:LookAt() only returns the cframe of the object, and does not completely change it.
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I guess that would work, but I also don’t know how I could do all of this on a moving platform. Would I be able to just weld the turret to the platform and it would still rotate normally using cframe?
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You can just use the CFrame angles of the returned cframe, so yes, you can simply just weld it, atleast from what i know.
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Alright I will give it a try. Thank you for the help.
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Luckily enough I made a turret in a test place a short while ago with a simple script and only using hinges, here is the place file. It aims where your mouse goes.
its uncopylocked
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