How to filter out character accessories and tools with rays?

[luvreiiko (Walker)]

So this is my current blacklist, which works as intended, to make it so that rays don’t stop at MY OWN character:

local rayparams = RaycastParams.new()
rayparams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist
rayparams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {player.Character}

But I’m confused on how to make it so that the rays will hit another player, but completely ignore their accessories and tools.
I have a folder called “Entities” in workspace, which all player characters are loaded into.

[mniao]

I suppose you can loop through and get all the accessories?

local entities = workspace.Entities

local function getHats()
	local hats = {}
	
	for _, character in pairs(entities) do
		for _, child in pairs(character:GetChildren()) do
			if child:IsA("Accessory") then
				table.insert(hats, child)
			end
		end
	end
	
	return hats
end


print(getHats()) --> returns a table with all the hats in the game, assuming your characters are under "Entities" like you stated.

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Here's an alternative without having to store your characters under a folder

local function getHats()
	local hats = {}
	
	for _, player in pairs(players:GetPlayers()) do
		local character = player.Character
		
		if character then
			for _, child in pairs(character:GetChildren()) do
				if child:IsA("Accessory") then
					table.insert(hats, child)
				end
			end
		end
	end
	
	return hats
end

And then you can simply do this on your code:

rayparams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {player.Character, table.unpack(getHats())}