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Question by davidflynn2 · Mar 03, 2013 at 11:48 PM · raycasttarget

Creating a raycast for turret

I am trying to figure out how to create a raycast that causes my turret to turn to face a target. I am creating this for a space ship so I am not sure how I go about making sure that it detects a metor or ship that goes though.

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avatar image robertbu · Mar 04, 2013 at 07:16 AM 0
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Unless there are restrictions on rotation, you can just do a transform.LookAt() to get your turret to face a target. The real problem is finding targets and selecting the one you want to shoot at. It is hard to suggest a solution without knowing more about your game. How many targets? Are you pooling targets? Are there items in the scene that block the turret from seeing the target? Do the targets share a tag (or a couple of tags)?

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http://cgcookie.com/unity/2012/05/22/unity-tower-defense-tutorial-part-01-autoturret/

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Answer by Julien-Lynge · Mar 04, 2013 at 07:19 AM

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Sorry about the delay thanks for the help.

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