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Raycasting won't work?

Asked by 8 years ago

I'm trying to make a raycasting gun, following the How to Make a Raycasting Lasergun wiki tutorial, Instead of using Equipped ** and then **MouseButton1Down, I did the **Activated ** event instead, but for some reason it isn't casting rays.

There are no errors.

local Tool = script.Parent
local Player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local Mouse = Player:GetMouse()

Tool.Activated:connect(function()
    print("Tool has activated")
    local Ray = Ray.new(Tool.Handle.CFrame.p, (Mouse.Hit.p - Tool.Handle.CFrame.p).unit * 300)
    print("ray")
    local Hit, Position = game.Workspace:FindPartOnRay(Ray, Player)
    print("Hit, position")
    local Humanoid = Hit and Hit.Parent and Hit.Parent:findFirstChild("Humanoid")
    print("Found hum")

    if Humanoid then
        Humanoid:TakeDamage(30)
    end

    local Distance = (Position - Tool.Handle.CFrame.p).magnitude
    print("Distance")
    local RayPart = Instance.new("Part", Player)
    print("RayPart")
    RayPart.Name = "RayPart"
    RayPart.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Royal purple")
    print("Royal purple")
    RayPart.Transparency = 0.5
    RayPart.Anchored = true
    RayPart.CanCollide = false
    RayPart.TopSurface = Enum.SurfaceType.Smooth
    RayPart.BottomSurface = Enum.SurfaceType.Smooth
    RayPart.formFactor = Enum.FormFactor.Custom
    RayPart.Size = Vector3.new(0.2, 0.2, Distance)
    RayPart.CFrame = CFrame.new(Position, Tool.Handle.CFrame.p) * CFrame.new(0, 0, -Distance /2)
    print("CFrame")

    game.Debris:AddItem(RayPart, 0.1)
    print("Added to Debris")
end)

Output:

Tool has activated ray Hit, position Found hum Distance RayPart Royal purple CFrame Added to Debris

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Does a `print` in the function confirm the Activated event is actually firing? BlueTaslem 18071 — 8y
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Indeed. I will use some prints around it and check for the results. BosswalrusTheCoder 88 — 8y
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I have edited the code to the print version, all the prints are happening. BosswalrusTheCoder 88 — 8y

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