Game

[floral oar]

e

[mellow solar]

Anyone

doesnt matter

Player

[floral oar]

ok i named it player

[mellow solar]

did you add the player gameobject

in the dropdown

as Player

[floral oar]

.

im sorry

my brain is just malfunctioning

what dropdown

[mellow solar]

the one u just showed me

[floral oar]

oh so i select it there

[mellow solar]

you need to add the player in it to be ignored.

the ray wont know player is in a different layer unless you add him there

[floral oar]

shud i change it to all children or just the parent

just the parent right?

[mellow solar]

the colliders of the player

any colliders on player

[floral oar]

ok so just the parent

and by parent i mean the player gameobject

not the raycastpoint thats a child of it

[mellow solar]

doesnt matter it doesnt have a collider

[floral oar]

ok

[mellow solar]

it will be ignored anyway

[floral oar]

so ive done that

[mellow solar]

you add the field to your raycast

and add Default layer in the inspector for the script

but not player layer

[mellow solar]

right, did you add HitCollider on the raycast 2d ?

[floral oar]

uh no i havent yet

its still the same

[mellow solar]

cuz u didnt add the layermask filter

public static RaycastHit2D Raycast(Vector2 origin, Vector2 direction, float distance = Mathf.Infinity, int layerMask = DefaultRaycastLayers, float minDepth = -Mathf.Infinity, float maxDepth = Mathf.Infinity); ```

dont copy this

[floral oar]

ok

wait

are those the arguments

[mellow solar]

that is the signature for layermask

yes

for layermmask

you only need distance before it

and ur done

[floral oar]

what do i do with distance

i dont know anything about that

[mellow solar]

make it the maximum amount you want the raycast to travel

aka to detect isgrounded

[floral oar]

idk what the maximum amount would be

[mellow solar]

usually 1 or less works

[floral oar]

oh

[mellow solar]

thats up to u

[floral oar]

yea but the thing is i cant visualize that, usually it helsp to understand through visualization but this is pretty new to me

so

yea

[mellow solar]

exactly

but i sent u a link

to debug.drawline

which you add those same values to as ur raycast

or debug.drawray sory

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Debug.DrawRay.html

you add the same values as ur Raycast2D

and you visualize it

the float is duration on screen, but if you multiply direction with * maximumlength from 2d ray

u can see it

[floral oar]

im assuming dir in the docs is going to be my distance value?

[mellow solar]

why did u write it different than ur raycast 2d..

[floral oar]

idk where to put it

[mellow solar]

its not about where to put it

[floral oar]

i though tit was gonna draw a ray

[mellow solar]

yes

in update

[floral oar]

but it didnt

[mellow solar]

but you still need the correct values

[floral oar]

what are the.

.

[mellow solar]

ray takes in a direction

look at ur 2D raycast

[floral oar]

oh i do

-Vector3.up

or .down

[mellow solar]

did you get it

[floral oar]

nope

eh its fine

ill learn this some other time

its getting late for me anyways

thanks for sticking with me tho

it was probably frustrating for you and i apologize but unity is still pretty annoying for me

[mellow solar]

nah its pretty close tho

I can show u

one sec

[floral oar]

nah i mean its fine i wanna save you the trouble

it was just an attempt anyways to see if i could make a simple platformer from scratch but still a few holes here and there

thanks tho

[mellow solar]

its no trouble

[mellow solar]

    [SerializeField] Transform feetPos;

    private void FixedUpdate()
    {
        Debug.DrawRay(feetPos.position, -feetPos.transform.up,Color.blue,1f);
    }
    ```

thats to see it