Hands

[proud wedge]

shocking title i know right, well im trying to recreate the grabpack from poppy playtime and my original hand placement was by using target.hit, however im thinking of switching to raycasting instead because i want to achieve this (in the video) where the hands travel a small distance between returning immediately. I just want to know how i would best achieve my desired results?

this is what i currently have

[modest flume]

Well even if you would use raycasting the hit location would still be infinitely far away if that is the issue.

Maybe a fix for this could be creating a part at the max distance?

[proud wedge]

i thought of that, but can you not set a distance for the raycast?

[modest flume]

Well I never heard of that. have you tried researching for that?

[proud wedge]

local Workspace = game:GetService("Workspace")

local function castRay()
    -- The origin point of the ray
    local originPosition = Vector3.new(0, 50, 0)
    -- The direction the ray is cast in
    local direction = -Vector3.yAxis
    -- The maximum distance of the ray
    local distance = 50

    -- Cast the ray and create a visualization of it
    local raycastResult = Workspace:Raycast(originPosition, direction * distance)

    if raycastResult then
        -- Print all properties of the RaycastResult if it exists
        print(`Ray intersected with: {raycastResult.Instance:GetFullName()}`)
        print(`Intersection position: {raycastResult.Position}`)
        print(`Distance between ray origin and result: {raycastResult.Distance}`)
        print(`The normal vector of the intersected face: {raycastResult.Normal}`)
        print(`Material hit: {raycastResult.Material.Name}`)
    else
        print("Nothing was hit")
    end
end

-- Continually cast a ray every 2 seconds
while true do
    castRay()
    task.wait(2)
end
``` here is documented code

im not sure if it helps my case but i used this example to give distance to raycasts in past projects

[modest flume]

why do you make reference to the workspace? and why do you use comments so often? This code is kind of suspicious if you feel me.

[proud wedge]

this is from roblox documentary

not my cxode

[modest flume]

i see

[modest flume]

so does this ray just end after 50 studs? Because i would think that this would still travel on infinitely.

[proud wedge]

yes, it ends after 50 studs

im not sure if i can get the cframe from that though

[modest flume]

Did some research and i think this might be it.

Im not really good at math so idk if it will work flawlessly but its worth a try i think

[proud wedge]

yeah i expected that

ill try to change it when i have the time

[modest flume]

👍

[bleak sierra]

you can choose distance of ray, its in the direction paramter

[proud wedge]

would i be able to get the cframe of the end distance if the ray doesnt detect anything

[proud wedge]

I take inspiration from this game, i noticed that the guns follow the hand until it returns, however the guns are both a singular meshpart with bones and joints. how would i do this?

[bleak sierra]

you can define a max length, if it doesnt hit anything then just use that distance

like if ray.result = nil

[narrow hollow]

when you ray cast , the direction you sets magnitude depends on how far the ray goes. so Vector3.new(0,500,0) would make a ray cast 500 studs up. to check if it hit anything it's either the ray cast returns nothing or result.Instance is nil, i forgot, you can also use result.Position i think to see where it hits

i can elaborate more when i'm on pc later, it's kind of limiting to do research on my phone

[proud wedge]

Im currently trying lerp and spring, the result i wanted wasnt nice enough and im using a viewmodel so the position changes alot. Lerp is a bit difficult for me since im not sure how i can do it perfectly i guess

[narrow hollow]

alright

[proud wedge]

@narrow hollow could you ping me when your on pc? I have this problem and im not sure hwo to fix it

[narrow hollow]

whats the issue?

[proud wedge]

I used the cframe of the hand instead of the start frame so it looked weird, but my problem is I'm not sure how I can make the guns look at the hands, I use joints because it's a meshpsrt

[narrow hollow]

i don't understand

[proud wedge]

im not sure if its a joint problem or something but yeah