Raycasting Help

[happychappy777 (chapper)]

Hello, I’m making a boat and I want it to be able to go on water, and ice. But it either wont detect the water or wont detect the ice

for i, boat in pairs(script.Parent:GetDescendants()) do
	if boat:GetAttribute("Boat") then
		local Seat = boat.VehicleSeat
		
		local ray
		local canJump = true
		
		local params = RaycastParams.new()
		
		params.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Exclude
		params.FilterDescendantsInstances = {workspace.Water:GetDescendants()} -- water is a folder with parts that look like water, the actaul water is invisible

		local mass = Seat.Parent.Main:GetMass()
		Seat.Jump.Force = Vector3.new(0, mass * 50, 0)

		Seat.Changed:Connect(function()
			Seat.AngularVelocity.AngularVelocity = Vector3.new(0,-1 * Seat.Steer,0)
			Seat.LinearVelocity.LineVelocity = Seat.MaxSpeed * Seat.Throttle
			if Seat.Occupant then
				Seat.Occupant.JumpPower = 0
			end
		end)

		coroutine.wrap(function()
			while task.wait() do
				if ray then
					if Seat.Occupant ~= nil and ray.Material == Enum.Material.Water then
						if Seat.Occupant.Jump == true and canJump == true then
							canJump = false
							Seat.Jump.Force = Vector3.new(0, mass * 300 * (0.5 * Seat.Parent.JumpPower.Value), 0)
							task.wait(0.2)
							Seat.Jump.Force = Vector3.new(0, mass * 50, 0)
							task.wait(1)
							canJump = true
						end
					end
				end
			end
		end)()

		coroutine.wrap(function()
			while task.wait() do
				local sPos = Seat.Position + Vector3.new(0, 5, 0) 
				local ePos = Seat.Position - Vector3.new(0, 20, 0)
				ray = workspace:Raycast(sPos, ePos - sPos, params)
				if ray and ray.Material == Enum.Material.Water then
					Seat.AngularVelocity.Enabled = true
					Seat.LinearVelocity.Enabled = true
				else
					Seat.AngularVelocity.Enabled = false
					Seat.LinearVelocity.Enabled = false
				end
			end
			print(ray)
		end)()
	end
end

[PUGARECOOLYA1 (puggie)]

“params.FilterDescendantsInstances = {workspace.Water:GetDescendants()} – water is a folder with parts that look like water, the actaul water is invisible”

This line alone is your issue.

[Doomcolp (dxxmed)]

@happychappy777

But it either wont detect the water or wont detect the ice

So you’re saying it only detects like one (water or ice) gotcha

@PUGARECOOLYA1

This line alone is your issue.

Could you explain?

[GFSGomes (Necrowolf)]

I think that your FilterType should be Include
And as far I know, yout don’t need to use :GetDescendants() method um that table.

[Doomcolp (dxxmed)]

@GFSGomes

I think that your FilterType should be Include

That’s actually something I missed. Nice catching that! Yeah they’re trying to detect only water and so they’d need to Include those parts

@GFSGomes

And as far I know, yout don’t need to use :GetDescendants() method um that table

Also correct, it filters all of the instance’s descendants so you don’t have to get them all.

Yeah I think your post might be the solution

[happychappy777 (chapper)]

I fixed it by adding a folder called “ice” and make it so it detects stuff in the ice folder as well

params.FilterDescendantsInstances = {workspace.Terrain, workspace.Ice:GetDescendants()}