Boxcasting / Spherecasting
As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to boxcast/spherecast in an efficient manner
If Roblox were to make a boxcasting/spherecasting function, it would allow me to create better, less dodgy custom physics for spaceships, planes, etc which rely purely on CFrame animation.
While I can currently boxcast in a dodgy way, which one method can be seen below, I feel as though there should be built in functions for this so that we do not have to rely on said dodgy methods. It would be greatly appreciated by myself and I’m sure many other developers if we had these functions built in.
-- Scarious
-- Box Casting Function
local cf =CFrame.new
local ray =Ray.new
local raycast =workspace.FindPartOnRayWithIgnoreList
local insert =table.insert
local pi =math.pi
local function boxcast(t1,d,s,l)
local td=t1*d
local m0=(t1.p-td).magnitude
local t2=t1*cf(0,0,-m0)
local x0,y0=s.X,s.Y
local x1,y1=x0/2,y0/2
local n0,n1,n2,n3=cf(-x1,-y1,0),cf(-x1,y1,0),cf(x1,-y1,0),cf(x1,y1,0)
local b0,b1,b2,b3=cf(x1,0,0),cf(0,y1,0),cf(-x1,0,0),cf(0,-y1,0)
local i0,i1,i2,i3,i4,i5,i6,i7=t1*n0,t1*n1,t1*n2,t1*n3,t1*b0,t1*b1,t1*b2,t1*b3
local c0,c1,c2,c3,c4,c5,c6,c7=t2*n0,t2*n1,t2*n2,t2*n3,t2*b0,t2*b1,t2*b2,t2*b3
local ol={t1.p,i0.p,i1.p,i2.p,i3.p,i4.p,i5.p,i6.p,i7.p}
local tl={t2.p,c0.p,c1.p,c2.p,c3.p,c4.p,c5.p,c6.p,c7.p}
local a=t1.lookVector
local ax,ay,az=a.x,a.y,a.z
local il=l or {}
local h,p,n,c
for i=1,#ol do
local o=ol[i]
for j=1,#tl do
local t=tl[j]
local to=t-o
local m,u=to.magnitude,to.unit
local um=u*m
local h0,p0,n0=raycast(workspace,ray(o,um),il)
if h0 and p0 and n0 then
local bx,by,bz=p0.x,p0.y,p0.z
local ab=ax*bx+ay*by+az*bz
local sc=(c and (c>ab and true or false)) or true
if sc then
h,p,n,c=h0,p0,n0,ab
end
end
end
end
return h,p,n
end
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