[SOLVED] Shooting from Elemental Staff

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Okay, sorry to bug you guys again. If I was to create an elemental staff within a model (it has no firing animation etc) what do I need to do in order to shoot from the staff in the straight line it's been clicked on?

I've attached a Sphere Gameobject as a child of the staff, but I have no idea on what I need to do in order for when I click my mouse that it shoots that sphere.

If you guys have any tutorials, please do tell as I'm actually wanting to learn how Unity works!

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Answer by rutter · Apr 08, 2012 at 03:08 AM

You could use Vector3.Lerp() to move the sphere from initial position to target position, over time.

The Unity manual page on prefab instantiation mentions a few methods for firing projectiles. You could look into adapting those to suit your purposes. When example scripts reference a "direction" for the shot, you can provide a direction by subtracting the target position from the shot origin -- this will give you a vector pointing from one position to the other.

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FizzyBear · Apr 08, 2012 at 09:49 AM 0

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Okay, I used that to generate my code, but at the moment it just generates a stationary sphere. Although after trying to uhh.. Implement Vector3.Lerp, I'm kind of flabbergasted.

The code which I came up with is this:

var bullet : Transform;

var target : Transform;

function Update () {

 if ($$anonymous$$otor.toggleCombat$$anonymous$$ode){
     if(Input.Get$$anonymous$$ouseButton(0)){
             var hit: RaycastHit;
         
             if (Physics.Raycast(target.position,target.forward, hit)) {
                 var hitpoint = hit.point;
                 transform.LookAt(hitpoint);
                   var bullet1 : GameObject = Instantiate (bullet , GameObject.Find("spawnPoint").transform.position, UnityEngine.Quaternion.identity);
                 bullet1.transform.rotation = transform.rotation;
                 bullet1.rigidbody.AddForce(transform.forward * 1000);
         }
     }
 }

}

This is after I gave up with Vector3.Lerp. The code ^ just creates a stationary prefab at the 'spawnPoint' of the elemental staff. Any suggestions? :/

[SOLVED] Shooting from Elemental Staff

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