Problem with bullet projectiles direction

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1

Basically the bullets seem to instantiate in a certain direction which doesn’t change but I don’t seem to be able to find what’s wrong. I believe it has to do with world space and local space. This is my code so far

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class Artificial_Intelligence : MonoBehaviour {
	
private GameObject player;
public int rotation_speed;
public int speed;
public int power;
public int spawndistance;
public GameObject prefab;
	
	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
	 player = GameObject.Find("Player");
	
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
		
		if (Vector3.Distance(player.transform.position, transform.position) < 7) {
		Quaternion finalrotation = Quaternion.LookRotation(player.transform.position - transform.position, Vector3.up);
	finalrotation.x = 0;
	finalrotation.z = 0;
	transform.rotation = Quaternion.Slerp(transform.rotation, finalrotation, Time.deltaTime * rotation_speed);
	Instantiate (prefab,transform.position, transform.rotation);
	prefab.rigidbody.AddForce(Vector3.forward * power);
	Physics.IgnoreCollision(prefab.collider, collider);
	transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * Time.deltaTime * speed);
		}
	}
3

there are a couple of issues here:

//you need to declare a reference to the instantiated object
GameObject myBullet = Instantiate (prefab,transform.position, transform.rotation) as GameObject;
// use transform.forward for the relevant direction
myBullet.rigidbody.AddForce(myBullet.transform.forward * power);
Physics.IgnoreCollision(myBullet.collider, collider);
transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * Time.deltaTime * speed);

mainly, for AddForce to work right we need to convert our local direction to a world direction, which is what transform.forward does

2

rigidbody.AddForce(Vector3.forward, Space.Self);

rigidbody.AddForce(transform.forward);

These will both add a forward force in local space.