I’m scripting a raycast move that shoots beams down from the sky at people. I have no idea why it won’t work, I have tried a bunch of stuff.
I’m not getting any errors either
coroutine.resume(coroutine.create(function()
for _ = 1, 300 do
wait(1)
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
for n, Player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
if Player.Character ~= nil and Player.Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
local params = RaycastParams.new()
--params.FilterDescendantsInstances = {script.Parent}
--params.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist
local origin = script.Parent.Position
local dir = game.Workspace.TestingDummer.Torso.Position
local result = workspace:Raycast(origin, dir, params)
if result then
print("yeah")
local between = (result.Position - origin)
local midpoint = origin + (between.Unit * between.Magnitude) / 2
local part = Instance.new("Part")
part.Anchored = true
part.CanCollide = false
part.BrickColor = BrickColor.Red()
part.Material = Enum.Material.Neon
part.Parent = workspace
part.CFrame = CFrame.new(midpoint, origin)
part.Size = Vector3.new(4, 4, between.Magnitude)
part.Transparency = 0
end
end
end
end
end))
I’d appreciate it if you could help. I’ve been working on this for a good 5 hours now, Different iterations of the move. I thought raycast would be the easiest to do. Apparently not.
The 2nd parameter of Raycast is a direction, not a position. If you want to convert the position to a direction then you would need to subtract “origin” from the end position (workspace.TestingDummer.Torso.Position)
To get a direction simply do Position1 - Position2 for a vector from position2 to position1
I made a script before that you can see where your raycasts are going
local raycastView = Instance.new("Part")
raycastView.Anchored = true
raycastView.CanCollide = false
local function visRay(startPosition,direction,colour)
local endPosition = startPosition + direction
local midpoint = (startPosition + endPosition) /2
local ray = raycastView:Clone()
ray.Parent = workspace
ray.Size = Vector3.new(0.2,0.2s,direction.Magnitude)
ray.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(midpoint,start)
DebrisService:AddItem(ray,updateSpeed)
--Ignore this if you do not care about the colour :)
if colour == "red" then
ray.BrickColor =BrickColor.new("Really red")
elseif colour == "green" then
ray.BrickColor =BrickColor.new("Bright green")
elseif colour == "blue" then
ray.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Bright blue")
elseif colour == "white" then
ray.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Institutional white")
end
ray.Material = "Neon"
end
Maybe i misunderstood, but it doesen’t seem to be working
coroutine.resume(coroutine.create(function()
for _ = 1, 300 do
wait(1)
local Players = game:GetService("Players")
for n, Player in pairs(Players:GetPlayers()) do
if Player.Character ~= nil and Player.Character:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
local params = RaycastParams.new()
--params.FilterDescendantsInstances = {script.Parent}
--params.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist
local origin = script.Parent.Position
local dir = script.Parent.Position - game.Workspace.TestingDummer.Torso.Position
local result = workspace:Raycast(origin, dir, params)
if result then
print("yeah")
local between = (result.Position - origin)
local midpoint = origin + (between.Unit * between.Magnitude) / 2
local part = Instance.new("Part")
part.Anchored = true
part.CanCollide = false
part.BrickColor = BrickColor.Red()
part.Material = Enum.Material.Neon
part.Parent = workspace
part.CFrame = CFrame.new(midpoint, origin)
part.Size = Vector3.new(4, 4, between.Magnitude)
part.Transparency = 0
end
end
end
end
end))
I have another issue if you want to help out, you don’t gotta but
local function GetRandomPos (position, Xsize, Zsize, Yheight)
local randomX = math.random(-Xsize/2, Xsize/2)
local randomZ = math.random(-Zsize/2 , Zsize/2)
local spawnAt = Vector3.new(randomX, Yheight, randomZ)
-- spawnAt is relative to baseplate position
-- Divide Xsize into left (negative) and right (positive)
-- same with Zsize because position is at center of part
return spawnAt + position
end
local function peepoo()
local randomPos = GetRandomPos(workspace.THEBASEPLATE.Position, workspace.THEBASEPLATE.Size.X, workspace.THEBASEPLATE.Size.Y, 200)
coroutine.resume(coroutine.create(function()
for _ = 1, 50 do
wait(.02)
local clone = game.ReplicatedStorage.Slime:Clone()
clone.Script.Disabled = false
local randomPos = GetRandomPos(workspace.THEBASEPLATE.Position, workspace.THEBASEPLATE.Size.X, workspace.THEBASEPLATE.Size.Y, 200)
clone.Parent = workspace
clone.Position = randomPos
print(clone.Position)
game.Debris:AddItem(clone, 2)
end
end))
This script spawns the slime that shoots the beams of light at the dummy, For some reason it doesen’t seem to be spawning across the map like it should be
