I was hoping someone could help with a popular aspect of gaming I cant figure out or get my brain wrapped around the concept of firing a gun?
There are many types of guns, machine (fast small bullets), powerful guns (slower but still fast like fireballs), lasers (longer electric type very cool).
I wrote the Unity Forums looking for information on how it all works and received one response from someone else’s post:
Generally its best to make bullets from guns that shoot small fast bullets, which you can’t really see cause of the speed (can’t remember but i think those types of guns actually have a category name) instant hit using raycasts as it will lower the overhead considerably compared to moving a gameobject using physics. To get the effect of bullets with mass hitting objects like you have on the crates you can just add a some force to the object that was hit by the ray cast. For laser or grenade kinda things i would go with particles and a raycast for lasers and objects for grenades.
The raycast API is found here:
Unfortunately I have no idea what the above post means ( even though I really appreciate the response)
I’d really like to learn how to do all of these types but I just cant figure it out? Id be happy with learning how to do a slow glowing bullet just to get on the correct learning path but in the end I have to learn them all.
So I’m desperately seeking your help!
Do you have any insight as to how this all works because it seems like there are a few different techniques depending on what type of gun firing you want to do. I was thinking mainly animation with a little scripting which id love to learn even though scripting hurts my brain lol.
Anyway Unity Is an awesome tool which is a very user friendly game application The Best I Have Ever Seen!
I just wish I could learn faster 
Sincerely,
Michael
P.S. I finally got my Mac and Unity
