Raycasts

[Deriboy]

I am wondering about raycasts. How would I fire a raycast, and then have something happen where it hits?

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[lilboarder32]

%raycast = containerRayCast(%start,%end,%mask,%ignore);
The raycast returns several things. If it doesn't hit anything of said mask, then it will return null, but if an
object of the same typemask as %mask, then it will return the object id, position, and the normal (possibly more, can't remember). I forget how the ignore argument works (it is optional, as it defaults to null); I can't remember if you put in a certain object, or a typemask.
Here is how you would fire a raycast from a player to where they are looking, searching for a brick:

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%eyePoint = %client.player.getEyePoint();
%eyeVector = %client.player.getEyeVector();
%Range = vectorAdd(%eyePoint,vectorScale(%eyeVector,10));
%raycast = containerRayCast(%eyePoint,%Range,$TypeMasks::fxBrickObjectType);
Now to get the brick you could do this:

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%obj = firstWord(%raycast);
is(isObject(%obj))
{
   //Do stuff
}You can also use these functions to get the normal and position from raycasts easily without using getWord:

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posFromRaycast(%raycast)
normalFromRaycast(%raycast)

[BobAndRob]

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Official documentation on raycasts:
http://docs.torquepowered.com/tge/official/content/documentation/Reference/Console%20Functions/TorqueScript_Console_Functions_16.html