I’m attempting a few theories but I’ve always been bad at how rays work.
I’m simply attempting to create a ray between two attachments of a sword (top and bottom) and use it to detect what parts are intersecting with the ray.
It is a part of a theory and my research of people with the same question just ended up with people saying “not to do it”. I’m doing it to see how accurate it is on the server because to my surprise GetTouchingParts is somewhere in the ether with detecting accurate position on the server.
local RayCasted = Ray.new(Sword.Attachment0.Position, Sword.Attachment1.Position)
local Hit_Parts = GetAllParts(RayCasted, Sword)
Sword is the handle just to note.
local function GetAllParts(Hit, Sword)
local Parts = {Sword}
local LastPart
if Hit ~= nil then
print(Hit)
repeat
LastPart = workspace:FindPartOnRayWithIgnoreList(Hit, Parts)
table.insert(Parts, LastPart)
until LastPart == nil
end
return Parts
end
If I understand this post correctly, Swordphin123 has made a Raycast Hitbox Module that should be really easy and useful for your cases, if you’re trying to get accurate melee weapons while optimizing and having it not be a big hassle. It uses attachments so you don’t have to hardcode the hitboxes for different weapons, and raycasts them every frame.
Another person has made a client-sided alternative to this hitbox module if you want to raycast on the client. Gives much better accuracy and low latency at the cost of a security compromise, however, you can minimize exploits on the client with sanity checks on the server for hit registration and all that stuff. (e.g. how far away the raycast is from the origin of the attachments)
As with @Extrenious’ post, it’s not 100% possible to stop exploits on the client when raycasting, but the best you can do is basic sanity checks on the server to minimize the hacks.
However, it’s up to you if you want to do stuff on the client (less lag, but is most vulnerable without server-sided sanity checks) or on the server (more security, more latency)
Adding onto this, it’s actually possible to verify raycast data from the client within 0.1 stud accuracy! I’ve spent a month or so working on code that backtracks not only a player’s position, but their animation too - and then, the server compares the backtracked positions of the attachments, and how far off the line between two attachments the hit position actually is.
In theory, if a hit is sent from client that is not exploited, then the hit position shouldn’t be more than one tenth of a stud away from the line which the server calculates.
I’m aware. My goal is to create a sword that cannot be exploited. GetTouchingParts I tested and is not actually accurate to the absolute position from the server. That is why I’m trying to see why the ray isn’t working.
I saw the module but I’m trying to do something a little bit different than that. I’m looking to do it on the server. Just trying to see why the ray isn’t working.
The issue is that rays take in two inputs: the starting position, and the direction. What you provided instead was two positions, which is very different.
instead, your could should look like so:
local Position0 = Sword.Attachment0.Position
local Position1 = Sword.Attachment1.Position
local Direction = Position0 - Position1
Ray.new(Position0, Direction)
If that doesn’t work, try Position1 - Position0 instead. As a sidenote though, you should be using workspace:Raycast instead, as workspace:FindPartOnRayWithIgnoreList is deprecated.
If I’m not mistaken your logic is a little off being you’re using Position0 as a starting point you’d want to make direction Position1 - Position0, or just flip the starting Position to Position1