[C#] How do raycasts work?

[Pandassaurus]

Hi everyone,

 

I was wondering how raycast results work in c#. I played around with them a little and found them to be very buggy. Could anyone explain/ link me to an explanation? My goal is to get the coords of the surface you're looking at, whatever you hit, however far.

 

Thanks for the help?

Edited July 18, 2015 by Pandassaurus

[lulzmodder]

Are you asking for an explanation on raycasting or how to use it in GTA V?

[Pandassaurus]

Are you asking for an explanation on raycasting or how to use it in GTA V?

I understand what they are, but want to know how to use it in gta

[lulzmodder]

I am finding them buggy as well.

[Pandassaurus]

I got them to work! I found an open source mod (thanks to Enumerator) that used them in vb and translated it over to C#.

            Vector3 camPos = Function.Call<Vector3>(Hash.GET_GAMEPLAY_CAM_COORD);            Vector3 camRot = Function.Call<Vector3>(Hash.GET_GAMEPLAY_CAM_ROT);            float retz = camRot.Z * 0.0174532924F;            float retx = camRot.X * 0.0174532924F;            float absx = (float) Math.Abs(Math.Cos(retx));            Vector3 camStuff =  new Vector3((float) Math.Sin(retz) * absx  * -1, (float) Math.Cos(retz) * absx, (float) Math.Sin(retx));            RaycastResult ray = World.Raycast(camPos, camPos + camStuff * 1000, IntersectOptions.Everything);            Ped ped = World.CreateRandomPed(ray.HitCoords);

It works pretty well, except that it does crash quite often. I'm not sure why this is, but am looking into it.

 

edit: I think the crashing had more to do with the ped spawning that i used for testing than with the actual rays.

Edited July 20, 2015 by Pandassaurus

[identitymatrix]

I got them to work! I found an open source mod (thanks to Enumerator) that used them in vb and translated it over to C#.

            Vector3 camPos = Function.Call<Vector3>(Hash.GET_GAMEPLAY_CAM_COORD);            Vector3 camRot = Function.Call<Vector3>(Hash.GET_GAMEPLAY_CAM_ROT);            float retz = camRot.Z * 0.0174532924F;            float retx = camRot.X * 0.0174532924F;            float absx = (float) Math.Abs(Math.Cos(retx));            Vector3 camStuff =  new Vector3((float) Math.Sin(retz) * absx  * -1, (float) Math.Cos(retz) * absx, (float) Math.Sin(retx));            RaycastResult ray = World.Raycast(camPos, camPos + camStuff * 1000, IntersectOptions.Everything);            Ped ped = World.CreateRandomPed(ray.HitCoords);

It works pretty well, except that it does crash quite often. I'm not sure why this is, but am looking into it.

 

edit: I think the crashing had more to do with the ped spawning that i used for testing than with the actual rays.

 

That cam stuff is rotation to direction.

 

For some reason, enumerator uses natives for everything despite it being in the scripthookvdotnet api.

 

Here is a reusable func for getting direction from a rotation vector

 

Public Shared Function RotationToDirection(ByVal Rotation As GTA.Math.Vector3) As GTA.Math.Vector3        Dim rotZ As Double = DegreeToRadian(Rotation.Z)        Dim rotX As Double = DegreeToRadian(Rotation.X)        Dim multiXY As Double = Math.Abs(Convert.ToDouble(Math.Cos(rotX)))        Dim res As GTA.Math.Vector3        res.X = Convert.ToDouble(-Math.Sin(rotZ)) * multiXY        res.Y = Convert.ToDouble(Math.Cos(rotZ)) * multiXY        res.Z = Convert.ToDouble(Math.Sin(rotX))        Return res    End Function

Dim rres As RaycastResult            Dim cpos As Vector3 = GameplayCamera.Position            rres = World.Raycast(cpos, cpos + RotationToDirection(GameplayCamera.Rotation) * 1000, IntersectOptions.Everything)            If rres.DitHitAnything Then                msg(rres.HitCoords.ToString)            End If

Edited July 28, 2015 by TheVideoVolcano

[Tieentjeee]

Thank you very much, just wanted to let you know, even if its months old by now, it still gets read by people (like me) who find it very useful!

[mockba.the.borg]

Hi everyone ... I am having trouble with the Ray Cast due to the range it intersects object. It seems I can only match some vehicles and peds up to about 32 meters away.

Other vehicles, like jets, the blimp and the metrotrain, for example, will match up to 1000 meters away.

I though that the raycast would match anything as long as it is visible, is it true? Or configurable?

 

Thanks for any help.

 

Mockba.