I have researched about it on YouTube, Dev Forum, and Dev Hub. I either didn’t understand, or they didn’t explain very well. Can someone help me on this?
What about ray casting don’t you understand? I think that is a better question to ask rather than asking to be taught raycasting because the developer hub article is not hard at all.
As @sjr04 said, you should always consult the dev hub first before creating a new post. And if you truly don’t understand, please try to show some sort of attempt at solving the problem.
That said, the most common misconception I see with raycasting is incorrectly defining the second argument, rayDirection. Screenshot from the dev hub article:
Often times people want to raycast from two defined points, and so throw those two vectors in the function but that’s not right.
Here’s an example of creating a directional vector from two defined points, raycasting from the player to a mouse click
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local origin = Player.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position
local destination = Player:GetMouse().Hit.p
local direction = destination - origin -- create directional vector
local ray = Ray.new(origin, direction)
local hitPart, hitPosition = workspace:FindPartOnRay(ray, Player.Character) -- ignore the player
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This explanation is a quick start:
A raycast is basically a ray, or a straight line, from one point to another. The reason we use rays is to detect if something is in the way or not.
A Ray is created from specifying the origin point(the start point) and the offset(the amount in Vector3 that it is moved). For example, if I use Ray.new(Vector3.new(0, 0, 0), Vector3.new(1, 1, 1) the origin(start) would be 0, 0, 0 and then end position would be StartPostion + Vector3.new(1, 1, 1).
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