Blacklisting a character from a raycast

[leaden quarry]

I have a raycast but I don't want it to collide with player's character. I know how to get all parts of a character for blacklisting, but I'm unsure on whether I should use a local script in the StarterPlayerScripts, or a Module script.

[native void]

Use module script

Use raycastparams

Filter the char

Filter type to exclude

[leaden quarry]

should i also make the mousepart thing apart of the module script since i would be requiring that the raycast params be equal to the table in the module script?

[leaden quarry]

ok so im trying and no luck. how would i go about this? i need to get table values from a module script but idk how...

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[leaden quarry]

"Attempted to call require with invalid arguments"

[native void]

Why are you requiring the server storage and blacklist for the filter descendants ☠️

I thought you want to exclude char

Btw it's exclude not blacklist

Blacklist is deprecated

U use AI or smth?

[leaden quarry]

never my stupidity is natural

[leaden quarry]

idk

this is literally my first day scripting

im not even familiar with all of the tabs im just moving scripts around to see which one they will work in

[native void]

Owwww okoo

In Ur first day of scripting I don't recommend you to learn raycasting

You should learn something else like tweenservice

But it's fine

[leaden quarry]

the official roblox tutorial has the module be the same name as the script name so i wasnt sure whether the params take the script name or the module name

[leaden quarry]

at least point me to some resources

the thing is im trying to make it so this raycast doesnt hit the player (the dot represents where the raycast collides)

i just dont want the player to be hit by the raycast so the dot doesnt collide with them, meaning i'll have to blacklist the player

[native void]

So did you fix it?

[leaden quarry]

no...i just know what i have to do, but i've got to figure out how...

so far, the module scripts dont even seem to be firing when required

and idk why

[native void]

Which origin your raycasting from

The mouse?

[leaden quarry]

im ngl i snagged this from a video lol

[leaden quarry]

with the rest of the variables being up here

everything works fine aside from the fact that the raycast stops at the player

[native void]

Try printing raycastresult

See what you get

[leaden quarry]

i do print "raycast hit" when the raycast hits somethingf

like when i put mouse over player

so i can guarantee the player is getting hit

[leaden quarry]

yeah obs managed to pick it up

[native void]

Printing raycast hit doesn't guarantee you hit the player, printing raycastresult let you know which object you hit

More specific

[leaden quarry]

ah

alrighty then

[native void]

Wait no it's raycastresult.instance

Not just raycastresult srry lol

[leaden quarry]

raycast result worked, raycast result.instance broke the cursor

[native void]

What did it print?

[leaden quarry]

this was when there was "print(raycastResult)"

as expected, it is colliding with the character

[native void]

Lemme see you raycast params again

[leaden quarry]

here

ugh why didnt it load

[native void]

Dude it's filter descendants char

Not mouse

[leaden quarry]

whats that mean

[native void]

Filter the character

Not the mouse

[leaden quarry]

is it unable to do both? will it only filter one and not the other?

[native void]

Yeah it can filter a lot but why need to filter mouse?

[leaden quarry]

also then how would i get a character, which would typically be gotten by looping through all descendants of said character. characteradded fails to run in local script

[native void]

It won't hit the mouse

[leaden quarry]

the video i watched said that it needed to filter the mouse so it doesnt fly towards the camera. let me find it...

[native void]

Local player = game.players.localplayer

Local char = player.character or player.characteradded:wait()

[leaden quarry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XebQT4Q3z0&t=1231s&t=17m53s

17 minutes 53 seconds in

[leaden quarry]

ah ok lemme try that

[leaden quarry]

im trying to use this in the local script, so far nothing is happening. should this go into a module script?

srry if im being a dumbass btw😭

[native void]

Ur doing the raycast in module of local

Or

[leaden quarry]

what does this mean

cuz like

rn

my only 2 issues are

1. getting all of the player base parts into a module script
2. requiring a module script so that i can link it to the local script so that everything in the module script is blacklisted

[native void]

local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")

local Char = Player.Character or Player.CharacterAdded:Wait()

local params = RaycastParams.new()
params.FilterDescendantsInstances = {Char}
params.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Exclude

RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(function()
    local Mouse = Player:GetMouse()
    local UnitRay = Mouse.UnitRay

    local origin = UnitRay.Origin
    local direction = UnitRay.Direction * 10000

    local result = workspace:Raycast(origin, direction, params)

    if result then
        print(result.Instance)
    else
        print("No hit")
    end
end)

enter this into ur local script

make a new one

[leaden quarry]

that worked, thank you

[native void]

ye

np

now u know how raycast work right?

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[leaden quarry]

wait gimme a sec to study this real quick

yeah alright i understand the script now

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[leaden quarry]

tysm