Part isn't moving on the direction I intended. Is there something wrong with my CFrame?

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6 years ago

Hello, I'm trying to make a laser that spawns 5 studs in front of the character that spans from the sky until the ground. In addition, I would like to move the laser forwards for a few seconds in the direction my character is facing until it gets destroyed.

Currently, my laser spawns on the intended location, but it will always 'look' towards the middle of the baseplate/origin no matter where it was spawned. In addition, the laser will move towards that point in the baseplate instead of the front of my character.

I'm thinking it is because of the CFrame properties that I used, or I'm doing the wrong calculations. Here is my code:

01local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
02repeat wait() until Player.Character.Humanoid
03local Character = Player.Character
04local Human = Player.Character.Humanoid
05 
06local OnCooldown = false
07 
08function LaserCutter()
09    if OnCooldown == false then
10        --load and play animations here
11        OnCooldown = true
12 
13        --offset by 5 studs in front of the character from high above
14        local SkyPosition = Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame*CFrame.new(Vector3.new(0,500,-5))
15        --raycast downwards
16        local Raycast = Ray.new(SkyPosition.p, -SkyPosition.upVector * 800)
17        local Ground, GroundPosition = workspace:FindPartOnRay(Raycast, Player.Character, false, false)
18 
19        if Ground then print('ground found') end
20 
21        --this creates a part up in the sky
22        local Origin = Instance.new("Part", workspace)
23        Origin.Transparency = 1
24        Origin.Anchored = true
25        Origin.CanCollide = false
26        Origin.CFrame = CFrame.new(SkyPosition.p, Character.Head.CFrame.lookVector)
27 
28        --this creates a part on the ground
29        local Laser = Instance.new("Part", workspace)
30        Laser.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Deep orange")
31        Laser.Size = Vector3.new(3,3,3)
32        Laser.Anchored = true
33        Laser.Material = "Neon"
34        Laser.CFrame = CFrame.new(GroundPosition, Character.Head.CFrame.lookVector)
35        Laser.CanCollide = false
36 
37        --create a beam connecting the sky and the ground for laser effects
38        --[[
39        local AttachmentOri = Instance.new("Attachment", Origin)
40        local AttachmentEnd = Instance.new("Attachment", Laser)
41        local LaserBeam = Instance.new("Beam", Origin)
42        LaserBeam.Attachment0 = AttachmentOri
43        LaserBeam.Attachment1 = AttachmentEnd
44        LaserBeam.FaceCamera = true
45        LaserBeam.Segments = 1
46        LaserBeam.Width0 = 3
47        LaserBeam.Width1 = 3
48        LaserBeam.Texture = "rbxassetid://908765959"
49        LaserBeam.TextureSpeed = 0.2
50        LaserBeam.TextureMode = "Stretch"
51        LaserBeam.LightEmission = 0.4
52        LaserBeam.LightInfluence = 1]]
53 
54 
55        --code for moving the part is here
56        local start = 0
57        while wait(0.01) do
58            start = start + 1
59            if start == 100 then
60                Origin:Destroy()
61                Laser:Destroy()
62                break
63            end
64            Origin.CFrame = Origin.CFrame + Origin.CFrame.lookVector*0.2
65            Laser.CFrame = Laser.CFrame + Laser.CFrame.lookVector*0.2
66        end
67 
68 
69        wait(2)
70        OnCooldown = false
71        return
72    end
73end
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I apologize if I'm not understandable enough, and any help is appreciated.

I solved this. Rheines 661 — 6y

Part isn't moving on the direction I intended. Is there something wrong with my CFrame?

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