Is there a way to give a ray width?

[twinqle (Twin)]

Let’s say I wanted to see if there was any part under a character less than 10 studs below and within a 5 stud radius. I would want to raycast down Vector3.new(0,-10,0) but how would I handle the 5 stud radius part? Is there a way to give a ray those dimensions?

[rokoblox5 (roko)]

You would have to use Region3 instead of rays here, EgoMoose made a very good Region3 module that lets you do that in shapes and rotations such as cylinders, which could help in your case, here is the module:

Rotated Region 3 Module

Update: This module has served its purpose, but with the release of the new spatial query API this post is obsolete. It will be left untouched for learning purposes, but it’s strongly recommended to check out the built-in api solution instead. Recently I took another crack at an old module I wrote some time back. The goal of this module is to provide users with a way to create Rotatable Region 3’s which is useful for too many reasons to list. Even though this module (older versions) has been …