How to instantiate projectile in the direction that my character is moving?

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I’m working on a top-down sport-like game prototype and used a control scheme from the documentation, which looks like this (this is my character’s control script):

var speed : float = 6.0;
	var jumpSpeed : float = 8.0;
	var gravity : float = 20.0;

	private var moveDirection : Vector3 = Vector3.zero;
	function Update() {
		var controller : CharacterController = GetComponent(CharacterController);
		if (controller.isGrounded) {
			// We are grounded, so recalculate
			// move direction directly from axes
			moveDirection = Vector3(Input.GetAxis("HorizontalP1"), 0,
			                        Input.GetAxis("VerticalP1"));
			moveDirection = transform.TransformDirection(moveDirection);
			moveDirection *= speed;
			
			if (Input.GetButton ("Jump")) {
				moveDirection.y = jumpSpeed;
			}
		}
		// Apply gravity
		moveDirection.y -= gravity * Time.deltaTime;
		
		// Move the controller
		controller.Move(moveDirection * Time.deltaTime);
		
		
		
	}

I would like to add on to this, so it includes instantiating a rigidbody traveling at a speed I choose, but I don’t know how exactly to direct the instantiated object in, basically the velocity, that the character is moving.

Here is what I have so far for instantiating the projectile (the “canfire” is an indicator that you can fire one projectile):

var projectile : Rigidbody;
var canfire : boolean = true;
var ballspeed : int = 25;
	

if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1")) {					

			// Instantiate the projectile at the position and rotation of this transform
			clone = Instantiate(projectile, transform.position, transform.rotation);
			Physics.IgnoreCollision(clone.collider, collider);
			clone.velocity = transform.TransformDirection (-ballspeed,0,-ballspeed);
			canfire = false;
		}
	
	


	
	}

In short, I want to instantiate a projecticle in the direction my character is traveling, at an increased rate.

I feel like there’s a fairly simple way to send the projectile in the direction the character is moving, any ideas anyone? Thanks ahead of time!

Also, am working w/Unityscript/JS.

Pat

2

You could get the reference of your character object.

Transform player = GameObject.Find("Player").GetComponent<Transform>();

forwardDir = player.localPosition.forward; // Should give you the Vector3 position in the forward direction of the player

If that doesn’t work. Try…
player.forward or player.position.forward