Script not able to detect objects

[polar sleet]

So I have been tweaking a script from the Dev Forums with some help and it is supposed to detect any model with the tag "Detectable" but it doesn't. I get no errors yet it still does not work. It can detect players correctly but not models.

The part of the script that I believe to be causing the issue is the checkSight function:

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[polar sleet]

local function checkSight(npc)
    local head = npc:FindFirstChild("Head")
    if not head then return nil end

    local detectable = {}
    for _, character in ipairs(getCharacters()) do
        table.insert(detectable, character)
    end
    for _, object in ipairs(CollectionService:GetTagged("Detectable")) do
        table.insert(detectable, object)
    end

    local detected = {}
    local headPosition = head.Position
    local headCFrame = head.CFrame
    local lookVector = headCFrame.LookVector

    for _, object in ipairs(detectable) do
        if object:IsA("Model") then
            object = object.PrimaryPart
            if not object then continue end
        end

        local objectPosition = object.Position
        local direction = (objectPosition - headPosition).Unit
        local dotProduct = direction:Dot(lookVector)
        local angle = math.deg(math.acos(dotProduct))
        local distance = (headPosition - objectPosition).Magnitude

        if angle <= fieldOfView and distance <= viewRange then
            if not raycast(npc, headPosition, objectPosition) then
                table.insert(detected, object)
            end
        end
    end

    return #detected > 0 and detected or nil
end

[brave haven]

probably didnt put the tag on the models or wrong spelling

[polar sleet]

I just double checked

They are all tagged

and spelling is correct

[brave haven]

add prints make sure code is running etc

take debugging steps

[polar sleet]

ight

Also is there anything wrong with the script its self

[polar sleet]

Everything seems to be running fine

I added debuging print statements

Added some more

Yeah all the functions run

so im not sure why it won't detect objects

[outer grotto]

So you added prints to check how many detectables it was getting, if they were models, if it's getting to the detection part of the loop and with what, etc

[polar sleet]

Oh I just made it so it says when it adds one to the table

thats gonna help more

I have to go for a while now I will add it in later

[polar sleet]

Yeah its saying 1 object was added to the table but it says it doesn't detect anything

[outer grotto]

So it gets to the point where it raycasts between the thing but just doesn't detect it?

[polar sleet]

I'd assume

[polar sleet]

maybe the problem is with the

    if not npc:IsA("Model") then
        continue
    end

    if not humanoid then
        continue
    end

lemme post the full script

[outer grotto]

Why are you adding getCharacters() to the exclusion array but also trying to detect them later?

[polar sleet]

I commented out the filter part of that, yet it is still not detecting

though now I use ipairs in getCharacters so now it tells me how many models are added

which is 2

[outer grotto]

Okay, so it reaches checkSight, yeah? Like if you print out in that function who the NPC is, does it make sense?

[polar sleet]

print(npc.Name)

yeah it prints

[outer grotto]

Okay, so how about the raycast? Does it get there?

How about the direction values? field of view?

How do the raycast parameters look before you call the function?

[polar sleet]

local parameters = RaycastParams.new()

parameters.FilterDescendantsInstances = {npc, getCharacters()}

Also I visualized the ray

lemme send a screenshot

[outer grotto]

I meant for you to print it just before you call Raycast, not like to show me the code

[polar sleet]

Yeah thats working as well :/

[outer grotto]

So these are two separate raycasts from Soldier A?

[polar sleet]

Yeah I messed it up in some way

I need to define the variables for it earlier

to get an accurate picture

but this does show that the rays are firing

It appears it fires 1 ray per detectable thing in the table

as when I joined it fired 3

[polar sleet]

Never mind, if I try to visualize the rays correctly I need to restructure the whole script

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