Raycasting is detecting terrain materials as 'plastic'?

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#11

I think the main issue is with terrain, but if it doesn’t work with normal parts than I think its something wrong with their script.

#12

hey, sure, well, nothing much, it prints the part as its meant to, and when you go to terrain, pip, it prints material’s plastic :gorilla:


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#13

I have no clue what’s causing this, maybe we can @ staff or something

If someone knows, please

help :smiley:

#14

Maybe try that. Maybe tell someone who has access to #platform-feedback:studio-bugs to post something about this there. Staff like to check out the Studio Bugs area quite a bit.

#15

I’m pretty sure this isn’t supposed to happen, I guess it’s a bug and you can’t do anything to fix it :man_shrugging:

#16

Hi, I hope what I say helps. I found a similar thread where someone was trying to print out the material but it also returned as plastic
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/detecting-the-material-of-terrain-with-a-touched-function/299830/3

In this post, a Roblox staff member suggested checking out Humanoid.FlootMaterial in the API reference. Heres the link to that: https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/property/Humanoid/FloorMaterial

#17

Hey, I have to check what’s under a part… so that will be hard :frowning:

#18

Anyone knows any solution to this D:

#19

Try to visualize your rays by materializing them into short lifetime parts.

Or create a non-collision part to show the ray’s end position

(to debug)

#20

I don’t think I should try that… since, Instance == workspace.Terrain returns true so, hmm if it wasn’t the hitpart terrain, it wouldn’t return true

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#21

Please, anyone knows how to detect terrain material with RayCasting?
Is this a bug??

#22

I used the normal way of Raycasting, it works perfectly as it should. Here’s how:

-- This script is in StarterCharacterScripts

local character = script.Parent; -- Getting the character which is the parent of the script

local runService = game:GetService("RunService") -- Getting RunService

runService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
    local ray = Ray.new(character:WaitForChild("HumanoidRootPart").Position, Vector3.new(0, -50, 0)) -- Casting a ray
    
    local part, pos, _, material = workspace:FindPartOnRayWithIgnoreList(ray, {character, workspace.Baseplate}) -- Ignoring baseplate and character
    
    if part then -- Checking if the part exists
        print(part.Name) -- Prints (Terrain)
        if material then -- Checking if the material exists
            warn(material) -- Prints (Enum.Material.Grass)
        end
    end
    
end)
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#23

Didn’t new it returned a 4 parametter returning terrain, thanks! <3

#24

wait… what about new WorldRoot:RayCast()
That’s what I need to know :frowning:
It returns the same or no?
Because, RayResult.Material on terrain returns Enum.Material.Plastic :thinking:

#25

I tried using workspace:Raycast(), but it returned everything same as you. The material was even Plastic, but it’s fine on Ray.new().

#26

Weird, My trust level ain’t enough yet… could you report on engine bugs?
:smiley:

#27

My trust level also isn’t enough yet, also can you please mark that as a solution if that helped?

#28

Use RaycastResult.Material instead of RaycastResult.Instance.Material.

#29

I used that, it just printed plastic.

#30

No, you did not. thirtycharacters

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