Raycasting (getting only players in front of player)

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I am currently sending raycasts to all players and filtering those in range of 8 studs. It’s all working great. Here comes another filter I’m unable to achieve - Filtering only players in front of me.

I tried ways other than Raycasting, however Raycasting seems reasonable in my project to avoid getting the players behind obstacles/walls.

Here’s a code block taken out of my script which is responsible for my raycasting mess.

for i,v in pairs(game.Players:GetPlayers()) do
				local damage = 50
				local originc = character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame --ray start pos
				local targetc = v.Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame --ray target

				local startPosition = character.HumanoidRootPart.Position --ray start pos
				local lookAt = v.Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position --towards where the ray looks
				local distance = (startPosition - lookAt).magnitude --how far the ray goes
				local raycastParams = RaycastParams.new()
				raycastParams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {character}
				raycastParams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist

				local ray = workspace:Raycast(startPosition, (lookAt-startPosition).Unit * distance*1.4, raycastParams) 
				local raylength = (startPosition - lookAt).Magnitude
				--if v.Team ~= player.Team then
				if ray then
					if ray.Instance.Parent:FindFirstChildOfClass("Humanoid") then
						print("ray hit: ", ray.Instance.AssemblyRootPart.Parent.Name)
						print("how far away: ", raylength, " studs")
						if raylength < 8 then
							v.Character.Humanoid:TakeDamage(damage)
						end

					elseif ray.Instance.Parent.Name == "DestructibleWall" then
						print'hitting destructible wall'
					else
						print("not hitting")
					end
				end
				--end 
			end

I would grately appreciate any help with this. I wasn’t able to find any useful information using the search engine

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This may not be the best solution. Loop through every player in the game and cast a ray infront of you for each one. If the ray picks up the player that has been found in the loop then add their limbs to a table. Make sure to keep the limb table outside of the loop. Then Loop through the players again but make sure
the table with all limbs of the player infront is the blacklist that you can set which will filter the players infront