Help with Raycast

[lyric cairn]

im on the exact same thing with my tower defense game its hard man

[rotund glade]

shit bro we're on the same boat 😭

[wet marten]

Can you tell us a little bit about how you introduce random spread?

maybe with some more code

[rotund glade]

with math.random()

[wet marten]

and how do you add it? its what the xyz is?

[rotund glade]

        local X = math.random(10, 20)
        local Y = math.random(10, 20)
        local Z = math.random(10, 20)

[wet marten]

ok i think i underestand why it does that now.

[rotund glade]

teach us your ways

[olive pike]

I suggested the cframe * cframe jn did it work @rotund glade

[uncut elbow]

Why r u multiplying the vectors

[rotund glade]

because of lookvector

duh

[rotund glade]

yeah it didnt

[uncut elbow]

U should be adding them

[olive pike]

I this case u add

Cuz uk

Lookvector multiply is to increase it's range

Lookvector add is to shift the direction

[rotund glade]

this happens if i do

anyways thats not the point bro

[lyric cairn]

jit just use chat gpt lmfao

[uncut elbow]

Z has to be negative

[rotund glade]

did u fixed yours?

[uncut elbow]

Because a positive Z means behind

[rotund glade]

you dont get it

[olive pike]

Technically if he's facing the direction of the x axis

And adds x

Then the spread goes forward

[wet marten]

basically, the way youre introducing randomness is wrong, i think because youre adding randomness in relation to the world
this is how ive seen bullet spread done before

local RNG = Random.new()
local TAU = math.pi * 2    

local directionalCF = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(), Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector)
local MinAngle = 0.1
local MaxAngle = 10
local direction = (directionalCF * CFrame.fromOrientation(0, 0, RNG:NextNumber(0, TAU)) * CFrame.fromOrientation(math.rad(RNG:NextNumber(MinAngle,MaxAngle)), 0, 0)).LookVector

[olive pike]

I think that's the problem

[rotund glade]

this shit is giving me headaches

[olive pike]

Exactly in relation to the world

[uncut elbow]

Yeah

[olive pike]

Not the player

[uncut elbow]

Use cframe

[rotund glade]

bro

[olive pike]

CFrame.Angles would be good

[rotund glade]

the same thing happens if i use cframe

and it gotta return a position

[uncut elbow]

Not if u use it well

[olive pike]

I did spray patterns so I did something like this

[wet marten]

the code i provided gives you a final result (called direction) that you can use for random spread. It takes the Humanoid's Lookvector and applies some randomness to it.

[wet marten]

.

[rotund glade]

that code is completely different of mine

[wet marten]

Here's how youd combine the two (one sec)

[rotund glade]

how the fuck would i do that here

local Result = game.Workspace:Raycast(Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position, Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector * Vector3.new(X, Y/2, Z), Params)

[olive pike]

What I did was I took the cframe of my camera

Cuz I'm doing a first person shooter

And * by an Cframe

[rotund glade]

that would work for a first person game

which is not my case

[wet marten]

local RNG = Random.new()
local TAU = math.pi * 2    

local directionalCF = CFrame.new(Vector3.new(), Character.HumanoidRootPart.CFrame.LookVector)
local MinAngle = 0.1
local MaxAngle = 10
local direction = (directionalCF * CFrame.fromOrientation(0, 0, RNG:NextNumber(0, TAU)) * CFrame.fromOrientation(math.rad(RNG:NextNumber(MinAngle,MaxAngle)), 0, 0)).LookVector
local Result = game.Workspace:Raycast(Character.HumanoidRootPart.Position,direction * 10, Params)--i put 10, put whatever you want as the length. the default length is 1.

here it is put on top

[uncut elbow]

(rootpart.CFrame*CFrame.new(X,Y/2, -Z)).Position

[rotund glade]

the variables?

[wet marten]

Everything i pasted would replace the one line you pasted.

[rotund glade]

me and @olive pike tried that

it didnt work

[olive pike]

Personally use angles cuz it's better that way

[olive pike]

Try again

And show us

[uncut elbow]

It does work

[olive pike]

Isn't this lookvector not pos btw?

[rotund glade]

alr lemme just try @wet marten suggestion before

[uncut elbow]

It's doing stuff relative to the rootpart cframe

[wet marten]

ok. remember, the last bit of code i pasted, is meant to replace the line you pasted (the one with result in it)

[rotund glade]

shit bro

its working

[wet marten]

https://tenor.com/view/dance-gif-14880344851904561392

[rotund glade]

wym

oh

yeah

yeah

did that

[wet marten]

https://tenor.com/view/happy-gif-25392652

[rotund glade]

now

should i debounce the rays?

[wet marten]

whats debounce?

ive heard of it before but idk what it means

[rotund glade]

if db == true then return end

[wet marten]

ohh like. a cooldown basically. sure

[rotund glade]

yes

[wet marten]

lookin good!!!!!!!

[rotund glade]

oh thanks

but

should i?

[olive pike]

Oh I use angles to get this that's why

[lyric cairn]

what are the red things

[rotund glade]

raycast

the rays

[lyric cairn]

oh

[wet marten]

ngl it depends... i have played a fighting game before called Duckgame that revolves around having no animations

[rotund glade]

lmao its lagging so fucking much

[gaunt grove]

** You are now Level 9! **

[wet marten]

players can change their inputs crazy fast

with no debounces

but then Darksouls is kind of like. the opposite of that

[olive pike]

Was it good?

[lyric cairn]

you should make an animaton where when you get hit you get knocked abck

[olive pike]

The animations feel heavy

[wet marten]

duckgame is insanely good, especially on lan (any amount of lag starts to impact the game quite heavily)

[olive pike]

Somehow

[rotund glade]

i will

in the last m1

[wet marten]

the lack of animations makes the game feel quite nice to play (in that game at least)

[olive pike]

I'm making csgo zombies where u knockback the zombies with guns

[rotund glade]

@olive pike

[wet marten]

your character just insantly responds to any input, you can even pick up and fire a gun on the same tick by pressing the buttons simultaneously

[olive pike]

Yea ig

[wet marten]

Omg... Overwatch 2 !!!!!

[olive pike]

Depends on what you're doing

[wet marten]

born again!!!!!

[olive pike]

I swear it's cool

I'm implementing spray patterns now

[wet marten]

it sounds good ahaha

[olive pike]

So progress is pretty good

[wet marten]

what do the zombies use to move/navigate?

[olive pike]

Nah they're real players

[lyric cairn]

i got my raycast to work lets go

[olive pike]

I tried to do npc pathfind

But the owner said

[rotund glade]

this thing is so annoying

[olive pike]

It's actual players

[rotund glade]

member blacklist is deprecated 🙄

[olive pike]

And I realised I spent 2h on that for nothing

[rotund glade]

gg

[lyric cairn]

bro i had to use ai to fix it

[olive pike]

I did get the npc to work tho

I had a memory leak in it before but I fixed it

[lyric cairn]

yo i paid someone to make this is it good?

[rotund glade]

as fuck

[olive pike]

Nice

It's good

Give the guy a bonus ong

[lyric cairn]

he made 2 i just dont know which ones better

[olive pike]

The first one

Skibidi toilet yo u one of those cash grabbers

[rotund glade]

man

raycast is kinda

weird

im ngl

[lyric cairn]

i am bro im taking advanatage of the main one being down

[rotund glade]

sometimes it hits

sometimes it doesnt

[lyric cairn]

was gonna use htis

[rotund glade]

aint no way ur doing a skibidi toilet tower defense game 😭

[lyric cairn]

this one looks like a mobile game one

[lyric cairn]

you better shut yo mouth boy

[rotund glade]

this will be my game logo

not really good

im not a designer so

[lyric cairn]

main i paid someone for mine

i can try and make one for you im good at it

[rotund glade]

i did mine by myself lol

[rotund glade]

fr?

[lyric cairn]

whats the game abouut

[rotund glade]

i mean mine doesnt look so bad its the result i was wanting

you dont have to lol dw

[lyric cairn]

oh ok i just got freee time rn

[rotund glade]

@wet marten @olive pike why is it not hitting sometimes tho?

[olive pike]

Idk

[rotund glade]

thanks for the help!

[uncut elbow]

maybe cuz it's hitting u first

[rotund glade]

Params.FilterDescendantsInstances = {Character}

[uncut elbow]

what is the filter type?

[rotund glade]

excluded

[uncut elbow]

is Character ur character or some random character

[rotund glade]

exclude

its me

[uncut elbow]

idk

[uncut elbow]

do u pass the params to the raycast?

[rotund glade]

yeah

this is so wierd