Bullet is Instantiating but not shooting

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Hi everyone,

Currently I am making a 2D top down shooter game and I am trying to get the actual shooting mechanic to work. The player moves with WASD and the mouse controls the forward of the player. Then if the player presses “space” a bullet is instantiated at the players forward and would ideally be shot. However currently the bullet spawns, but it does not move. Here is my code:

    Vector2 direction = ((mouse - transform.position));
    public int bulletSpeed;
    direction.Normalize();
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space))
    {

        GameObject projectile = Instantiate(bulletObject, transform.position + (Vector3)(direction * 0.5f), Quaternion.identity);
        projectile.GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>().AddForce(projectile.transform.forward * bulletSpeed, ForceMode2D.Impulse);

    }

I am trying to add force to the bullet one it is spawned but currently it does not do anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

2

Try with projectile.GetComponent().WakeUp();

If that doesn’t work, try moving your code to void FixedUpdate(){}