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:

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
repeat wait() until Player.Character.Humanoid
local Character = Player.Character
local Human = Player.Character.Humanoid

local OnCooldown = false

function LaserCutter()
	if OnCooldown == false then
		--load and play animations here
		OnCooldown = true
		
		--offset by 5 studs in front of the character from high above
		local SkyPosition = Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame*CFrame.new(Vector3.new(0,500,-5))
		--raycast downwards
		local Raycast = Ray.new(SkyPosition.p, -SkyPosition.upVector * 800)
		local Ground, GroundPosition = workspace:FindPartOnRay(Raycast, Player.Character, false, false)
		
		if Ground then print('ground found') end
		
		--this creates a part up in the sky
		local Origin = Instance.new("Part", workspace)
		Origin.Transparency = 1
		Origin.Anchored = true
		Origin.CanCollide = false
		Origin.CFrame = CFrame.new(SkyPosition.p, Character.Head.CFrame.lookVector)
		
		--this creates a part on the ground
		local Laser = Instance.new("Part", workspace)
		Laser.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Deep orange")
		Laser.Size = Vector3.new(3,3,3)
		Laser.Anchored = true
		Laser.Material = "Neon"
		Laser.CFrame = CFrame.new(GroundPosition, Character.Head.CFrame.lookVector)
		Laser.CanCollide = false
		
		--create a beam connecting the sky and the ground for laser effects
		--[[
		local AttachmentOri = Instance.new("Attachment", Origin)
		local AttachmentEnd = Instance.new("Attachment", Laser)
		local LaserBeam = Instance.new("Beam", Origin)
		LaserBeam.Attachment0 = AttachmentOri
		LaserBeam.Attachment1 = AttachmentEnd
		LaserBeam.FaceCamera = true
		LaserBeam.Segments = 1
		LaserBeam.Width0 = 3
		LaserBeam.Width1 = 3
		LaserBeam.Texture = "rbxassetid://908765959"
		LaserBeam.TextureSpeed = 0.2
		LaserBeam.TextureMode = "Stretch"
		LaserBeam.LightEmission = 0.4
		LaserBeam.LightInfluence = 1]]
		

		--code for moving the part is here
		local start = 0
		while wait(0.01) do
			start = start + 1
			if start == 100 then
				Origin:Destroy()
				Laser:Destroy()
				break
			end
			Origin.CFrame = Origin.CFrame + Origin.CFrame.lookVector*0.2
			Laser.CFrame = Laser.CFrame + Laser.CFrame.lookVector*0.2
		end
		
		
		wait(2)
		OnCooldown = false
		return
	end
end

I apologize if I'm not understandable enough, and any help is appreciated.

Anonymous

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I solved this.

Anonymous#