Simple Bullet spread

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I’m aware that there are several other similar topics. However, they all include using the mouse positions, where I’m trying to make it for a turret on a plane. This is the current code I got:

bullet.CFrame = turret.CFrame

This is the formula I’m using:

local SpreadValue = 10
local Spread = CFrame.Angles(math.rad(math.random(-SpreadValue , SpreadValue )/10), math.rad(math.random(-SpreadValue , SpreadValue )/10), math.rad(math.random(-SpreadValue , SpreadValue )/10))

How am I supposed to incorporate them both?

Doing this didn’t do anything:

bullet.CFrame = turret.CFrame * Spread
2

By getting a random number -10 through 10 and then dividing that by 10, your maximum spread will be 1 degree, which is hardly perceptible, especially when in most cases it is much less that then. Try setting SpreadValue to a higher number, such as 50, so the bullet can be offset by up to 5 degrees in each direction.

3

For some reason, it’s shooting in a straight line still, but now the bullets rotation is changing cause of the spread.

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4

Are you moving the bullets relative to the turret? They should be moving relative the bullet’s orientation.

Example:

bullet.CFrame = turret.CFrame * Spread
-- example movement thing
for i = 1, 10 do
     bullet.CFrame = bullet.CFrame * CFrame.new(0, 0, -1)
     wait()
end
5

The bullet is being moved by BodyVelocity:

bullet.BodyVelocity.velocity = (Plane.Turret.CFrame.lookVector*550)
6

It should be relative to the bullet.

bullet.BodyVelocity.velocity = (bullet.CFrame.lookVector*550)
7

That will just have the bullets move in a stuck direction. Making it relative to the Turret makes the bullets fire in the direction the plane/turret is facing.

8

Thats why you orient the bullets based on the turrets position and a randomly generated spread, and then just move the bullet relative to the bullet’s current orientation. The bullet will still appear to be fired from the turret.

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