So I want to make guns for my star wars ships but I don’t know how to start.
I thought of making a part keep going in a direction until it hits another ship.
I also need to have it so only Star Destroyers (this is star wars, ofc) can hit CR90 Corvettes (aka the Tantive IV aka a rebel ship), and vice versa. They aren’t gonna be manned, also.
How should I do this? What is the easiest way to do this?
After problems: Problems with my guns on my star ships - #3 by IAmPinleon
There are a bunch of great topics on the Forum to help you get started, and many to help you become more advanced with creating animated weaponry.
Here are my two personal favorites:
Animating Tools
FastCast Module (for Rays)
To keep it simple, you’d have to first use RaycastingService to create a ray for the gun’s aim. Then, you’d just have to write a script for actually firing the gun and rendering the bullet on everyone’s client to prevent server issues.
And if you want to make it so only certain teams can hit each other, then you can simply use a script to detect if the first part the ray touches is a parent of a specific object. If it’s the right team, then continue with the script.
I have not made a gun before so I cannot answer your complex questions. However I hope the topics above get you on the right track. (If I get anything wrong, please notify me and I will change this post.)
Ok I didn’t use those tutorials but used TheDevKing’s tutorial on raycasting and made some changes.
local bullet = game.ReplicatedStorage.Laser
local turret = script.Parent
local fireRate = 1
local Damage = 10
local speed = 1000
local aggroDist = 5000
while wait(fireRate) do
local target = nil
for i, v in pairs(workspace:GetChildren()) do
local side = v:FindFirstChild("Side")
local health = v:FindFirstChild("Health")
local part = v:FindFirstChild("Primary")
if (health and health.Value > 0) and (side and side.Value == "Empire") and part then
if (part.Position - turret.Position).magnitude < aggroDist then
local bulletRay = Ray.new(turret.Position, (part.Position - turret.Position).Unit * 250000)
local hit, position = workspace:FindPartOnRayWithIgnoreList(bulletRay, {turret})
if hit == part then
target = part
print("Object not in the way :)")
else
print("Object in the way :(")
print(tostring(hit), tostring(hit.Parent), tostring(hit.Parent.Parent))
end
end
end
end
if target then
local part = target
turret.CFrame = CFrame.new(turret.Position, part.Position)
local newBullet = bullet:Clone()
newBullet.Position = turret.Position
newBullet.Parent = workspace
newBullet.Velocity = turret.CFrame.LookVector * speed
newBullet.Touched:Connect(function(hit)
if hit.Name ~= "Primary" then
local health = hit.Parent:FindFirstChild("Health")
if health then
if health.Value > 0 then
health.Value = health.Value - Damage
newBullet:Destroy()
if health.Value == 0 then
for _, weld in pairs(hit.Parent:GetDescendants()) do
if weld:IsA("WeldConstraint") then
weld:Destroy()
print("DESTROYED")
end
end
end
end
end
end
end)
end
end
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