Laser Shooting from off screen

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Hi!
I am very new to game dev but I am trying to get my laser to shoot from the pink craft. On my editor it initially shoots from the correct position but when I hit space to shoot it is shooting from somewhere off screen.
Here is the link to my build.
Thanks for any help.
https://playcanv.as/p/szV32UV4/

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Hi @Ashley_Solano and welcome,

Are you able to share some of your laser shooting code or even better a public project?

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Looking at the minified code,

InputHandler.prototype.update = function(t) {
    if (this.app.keyboard.isPressed(pc.KEY_A) && this.entity.translate(.1, 0, 0),
    this.app.keyboard.isPressed(pc.KEY_D) && this.entity.translate(-.1, 0, 0),
    this.app.keyboard.isPressed(pc.KEY_W) && this.entity.translate(0, 0, .1),
    this.app.keyboard.isPressed(pc.KEY_S) && this.entity.translate(0, 0, -.1),
    this.app.keyboard.wasPressed(pc.KEY_SPACE)) {
        var e = this.app.assets.find("PlayerLaser").resource.instantiate()
          , a = this.entity.getPosition()
          , s = new pc.Entity;
        this.app.root.addChild(s),
        s.translate(a.x + 1, a.y, a.z),
        s.addChild(e)
    }
}

It looks like you translate it one unit on the X axis after creating the entity so its one unit to the right of whatever entity this script is attached to

It looks like you

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Screen Shot 2022-11-16 at 10.21.12 AM
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Thank you, I tried removing the + 1 and it is still doing the same thing.

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So sorry, I thought the link was for the publish project it says I need premium to make it private and I published the project to PlayCanvas so not sure why is isn’t showing that way. (new to PC)

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I don’t think you need the translate at all, or you intended it to be moved to be in front of the ship?

Did you mean to entity.setPosition(position.x, position.y, position.z) instead?

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Can you provide a link to the project dashboard please so people can look at the project setup and code? Eg https://playcanvas.com/project/438243/overview/orbit-camera

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https://playcanvas.com/project/987923/overview/solano_space-project

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I would like it to shoot from the ship.

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Forked project example: https://playcanvas.com/project/1009137

Main changes:

  • Created an offset from the ship to place the spawned laser
  • Changed the light on the laser to a Omni light as it’s much cheaper than the directional light that was on it
  • Disabled shadows on clustered lights in rendering settings to save startup performance
  • Made the lasers destroy themselves after 5 secs
  • Made the lasers go in the direction they are facing
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Wow thank you so much! I updated my original and see a huge difference! Thank you so much! I appreciate your time!