Game Dev Journey

Make a new scene with an Area3D as the root

Rename it to Projectile

Add a MeshInstance3D as a child

Set the Mesh property to a new Sphere Mesh

In the Material property

Add a new Standard Material

In the Albedo property

Choose a red colour

Add a new CollisionShape3D as a child of Projectile

Set the shape to a SphereShape3D

Save the scene

An important property to enable on the projectile is

Top Level

This prevents the projectile from

inheriting the transform of its parent

So the projectiles will not rotate etc with the turrets

But will move independently

Attach a script to the Projectile

Add a variable to control the direction

Add a variable to control the speed

in the physics process function

Update the position of the projectile

multiplying by direction, speed and delta

to make it frame rate independent

Projectiles will fire from turrets

So they will need to be children of the Turret scene

To test the firing:

Add a script to the turret scene

export a projectile as a PackedScene

In the ready function

instantiate the projectile scene

add it as a child of the Turret

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