I need help with projectile trajectory

Hi, I’m currently studying game development and my group has recently started on our first big project, which will be a 2D action platformer.

My main responsibility in the project is making the enemies and I’m currently working on an enemy that’s supposed to fire a projectile in an arch. I’ve tried following a few different tutorials for projectile trajectory, some using the physics engine and some using animation curve. Since the projectile is always supposed to land on the ground at the players position on the x axis I believe that a physics based method would be best.

But there’s an issue with that… I’m new to coding and bad at the trajectory calculating math that would be used in the context.

Does anyone have any tips on how to make a physics based projectile that moves in an arch to the players position?

I appreciate any help!

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