Raycast in a cone?

[nicemike40]

I’m not quite sure what you’re asking, but does this work for you?

How do I change a parts velocity in the direction that the character is facing?

You’re saying “radius”, but I think you want a cone. Radius isn’t quite specific enough in this context. i.e. if your LookVector is the black line in this image, you want to pick some velocity in the red cone: [image] I borrowed that image from this stackoverflow answer. Here’s the top answer on that question translated into lua: -- axis: center line of cone -- angle: angle from center to edge of cone -- returns: a random unit vector inside the cone, evenly distributed along the partial sur…

Edit: or possibly this, which spreads the lines out evenly?

How can I raycast in every direction from a position?

Really good attempt, there’s just a few tweaks to some negatives and things you needed. I also cleaned up the if statement stuff but your method also would work. local function EvenlyDistributeVectorsInCone(n, angle, axis) if n == 0 then return {} end if n == 1 then return { axis } end local cosAngle = math.cos(angle) local vecs = table.create(n) local phi = math.pi * (3 - math.sqrt(5)) for i = 0, n - 1 do local a = i / (n - 1) local z = -1 + (1-cosAngle)*a local radius = math.sqrt…