Raycast returns nil

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#1

So I made a raycast script, and it just says that the raycast is nil. Nothing is helping. Does anyone know the solution to this

while wait() do
	local Params = RaycastParams.new()
	local orig = script.Parent.Position
	Params.IgnoreWater = true
	Params.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist
	Params.FilterDescendantsInstances = {script.Parent}
	
	local raynew = workspace:Raycast(script.Parent.Position, (Vector3.new(40,40,40) - script.Parent.Position).Unit * 40, Params)
	
	if raynew then
		if raynew.Instance then
			print(raynew.Instance.Name)
		end
	end
end
#2

I’m assuming this is in response to my post on the other topic

I think I didn’t explain very clearly (sorry I’m bad with conciseness), but here you’re casting a ray from script.Parent.Position, towards the coordinates 40, 40, 40 with a length of 40. Is there a part at 40, 40, 40? If so, the way likely wouldn’t be long enough to intersect it unless this part is relatively large, but there are a lot of things that could be the case here. Could you show what you’re trying to do?

#3

I’m trying to make the part raycast everything in its range. And then print the instances.

#4

Ah okay we don’t have spherecasting so it’s unlikely that that’s what you’re looking for. Maybe GetPartBoundsInRadius is a better option

#5

The result will be nil when no objects are intersecting the ray.

Considering you’re saying you want to print all the objects that intersect from point A to point B, you might want to look into either of the spatial query functions - raycasting only returns 1 result at most.