Introducing Shapecasts

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#186

Just in case anyone else just wants to skip to the learning part.

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My enemy that follows you is kinda twitchy
#187

it would be cool if you add cylindercast
like

cframe : CFrame, 
diameter : number, 
height : number, 
direction : Vector3, 
params : RaycastParams
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#188

you know car randomly fails when you put part on it?
also i’m not expert at coding

#189

Hey um there is a bug with shapecasts where if you pass an incorrect instance such as workspace:Shapecast(workspace.Model) it will crash your game.

5 minutes of work gone :frowning:

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#190

Is there an ETA on margins for shapecasting? It’s been a year and this is extremely important

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#191

if we have shapecasts now then why not save us the time of raycasting 10 times

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#192

I agree, but i also love using workspace:GetPartsInParts() feature for that.

#193

Any word on shape cast margins? It’s been nearly two years.

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#194

i found a vulnerability to the sphere cast, if you can get the camera just right, the sphere cast does not collide with the floor but rather goes through it
other than that it works

#195

How can we visualise a raycast? Visualising a raycast would be very helpful since we could see where the ray will go, and if we are pointing it correctly

#196

It’s a known issue. Shapecasts are flawed:

“We will be adding tolerances to fix this case,” they said. It’s been almost 2 years.

#197

here’s the visualization raycast place