[Solved] How to shoot an object in front of the player?

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1

I’ve wrote a script for my firstperson game which parents a football in front of the player.

My aim is to shoot the ball in front of the player if i press the left Mousebutton and hold down the “W” Key.
Unfortunatelly i don’t know how to give the ball a force to shoot it in front of the player.
Would be nice if someone could help me to achive this! :slight_smile:

I made a video about my Problem, maybe it helps to solve it:

Thanks in advance for any help!

Greetings

-Edd

Here is my Script which i have put to the football:

var thePlayer : CharacterController = GetComponent(CharacterController);
var ParentPart : Transform;	//An empty object which is parented in front of the player
var PickUpDistance : float = 2.4;
var canPickUp : boolean = false;
var parented : boolean = false;

function Update () 
{
	//is the player near enough to the football to pick it up?
	dist = Vector3.Distance(thePlayer.transform.position, transform.position);
	if (dist <= PickUpDistance) {canPickUp = true;} else { canPickUp = false; }

    //take the ball (parent it to the empty objekt which is parented to the player)
    if(Input.GetButtonDown("Fire2") && canPickUp) 
 	{
	     transform.parent = ParentPart;
	     parented = true;
    }
	    	
	//Shoot
	if(Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1") && Input.GetKey(KeyCode.W) && parented)
 	{
		parented = false;
		transform.parent = null;
		transform.rigidbody.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints.None;
		
		transform.rigidbody.AddForce (thePlayer.velocity.x,thePlayer.velocity.y,(thePlayer.velocity.z+100));	
	}

    //set the balls position to the position of the empty
	if(parented) 
	{ 
		transform.position = ParentPart.position;
		transform.rigidbody.constraints = RigidbodyConstraints.FreezeAll;
	}
}
2

You can use the forward variable in the transform component to get the current direction the player is facing. You can then add vectors in a much more intuitive way.

transform.rigidbody.AddForce (thePlayer.velocity + thePlayer.transform.forward*100);