RayRarams nil when passed through a RemoteEvent

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Hello devforum,

I’m working on a gun system that requires sending rayParams thorugh a remoteEvent to make sure the bullets travel correctly, but when I try to get the rayParams in the client/server from the remoteEvent the rayParams are nil.

RayParams.rbxl (28.6 KB)

Thanks

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RemoteEvents/RemoteFunctions are restricted in the types of values they can transmit across the client-server boundary, you’ll need to serialize the RaycastParam object first into primitive values and then deserialize those values back into a RaycastParam object on the other side, i.e;

--CLIENT

local players = game:GetService("Players")
local player = players.LocalPlayer
local character = player.Character or player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

local replicated = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local remote = replicated:WaitForChild("RemoteEvent")

local raycastParams = RaycastParams.new()
raycastParams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {character}
raycastParams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist
raycastParams.IgnoreWater = true

local raycastParamsData = {}
raycastParamsData["FilterDescendantsInstances"] = raycastParams.FilterDescendantsInstances
raycastParamsData["FilterType"] = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist
raycastParamsData["IgnoreWater"] = true

remote:FireServer(raycastParamsData)

--SERVER

local replicated = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage")
local remote = replicated.RemoteEvent

remote.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, raycastParamsData)
	local raycastParams = RaycastParams.new()
	for raycastParamsProperty, raycastParamsValue in pairs(raycastParamsData) do
		raycastParams[raycastParamsProperty] = raycastParamsValue
	end
	
	print(raycastParams.FilterDescendantsInstances) --table
	print(raycastParams.FilterType) --Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist
	print(raycastParams.IgnoreWater) --true
end)
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