3d td game bullets not firing properly

jbskaggs

I am learning godot 3d and rewriting my TD game in 3d to see which one I like better.

I have my 3dpath and pathfollow working, I have the main shooter facing the enemy as it goes down the path.

But the bullet if the shooter points down it fires properly, as the shooter rotates the bullet gets more and more off its facing direction till if pointing up it shoots sideways.

Shoot down= good Shoot down right or down left ok Shooting sidewise or up bullets goes off 90 degrees. See image:

This attached file is a working experiment- to fire a bullet press the up arrow.

firing bullet code is in level0 script, bullet code in bullet script. Level0 is the main scene that runs.

TwistedTwigleg

In Bullet.gd, change translate(self.global_transform.basis.z.normalized() * 3 * delta) to translate(Vector3.FORWARD * 3 * delta) and then it should work :smile: translate expects the position to be relative to the Node it is operating on, so since it is already facing the direction you want to move, you can just tell it to move along it's Z axis and it will move forward. The movement with translate is similar to moving a node with the arrows in the editor with local mode enabled (the little cube icon changes from local to global mode).

If you want to move relative to global space, so the movement doesn't take the current node's rotation into account, then you'll want to use something like global_transform.origin -= global_transform.basis.z.normalized() * 3 * delta

jbskaggs

Thank you kindly sir!