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How to refer to a object that has just been hit by a ray cast?

I would like to use RigidbodyConstraints.FreezeRotation;in order to freeze the rotation of an object that is picked up. The problem is I don’t know how to refer (or call) the currently selected object....

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How to find a material through a raycast in Unity 5?

I have an empty object with a script on it and I want to be able to move the empty over other objects and then have it print out the name of the material for the triangle that it’s hovering above. (Its...

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How can I improve my ray casting algorithm

So I finished coding this ray casting algorithm in C++ and I feel like it could be improve, despite that, I believe that it is really good since it is coded using SFML. Here is the algorithm in C++...

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Unity 3d sendmessage to another script, with parameter of raycastHit?

I am trying to send message from 1 script to another, and need to do something like that: var hit : RaycastHit; .... if(soemthing){ checker.SendMessage("MakeEffect", hit); } and another script: public...

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Raycast from ScreenCenter hits object but does not return its tag

Here is my code: using UnityEngine; using System.Collections; public class Crosshair : MonoBehaviour { public Camera cam; RaycastHit hit; Quaternion rot; // Update is called once per frame void Update...

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Raycast a ray to the tip of another ray

I’m using unity to raycast a line from the center of my camera viewport to a world position (yellow line). I also want to cast a ray from the center of my character to this same point (blue line). I...

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Raise an object off from the surface of another object set by raycasts

I have a basic FPS and I just added in bullet holes. The way it works is when the mouse is clicked, a method is called in the animator that fires a raycast from the nozzle of the gun outwards, and...

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Continuous Collision Detection

So I’m playing around with the separating axis theorem and collision. Obviously the problem of what face it collided with arose. I need the unit normal which is tangent to that face it collided with to...

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How to make dynamic DOF from mouse position in Unity 5?

I found a video a while ago for how to make a dynamic DOF in unity. It fires rays from the camera and positions an empty at the location that the ray first hit. How can I change this so that it doesn’t...

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Unity C#: Play animation on pressing “E” on trigger collider

I’ve made a door, which has an Animator on it with an animation (Door open/close=>2 animations in 1 Animator). There are stationary panels on each side of the door with a trigger collider. Concept:...

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Finding intersection in CPU ray casting

I’m trying to implement a ray casting on CPU, for each pixel I have a ray. I’m reading the data which is stored in a rectilinear grid. I’m trying to find the intersection but I’m not sure how to do...

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Raymarching on a Hi-Z buffer in GLSL

So I’m trying to implement Screen Space Reflections using a Hierarchical z-Buffer in GLSL. I’m following the approach from GPU Gems 5 and the Frostbite presentation linked here (“Stochastic...

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Simulate a touch on a point where ray hits in Unity

I want to simulate a touch input on the position where a ray hits an object, and only if it hits something. I know that it’s not common to do it with a raycast, but I need it this way for the HTC Vive....

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Wall checking not working correctly

Basically I am working on side scrolling 2d game. For that I want to check whether player is collided with wall. I have written some code for it but can’t able to decide where I have done stupid...

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Is it possible in Unity to Flip a 2D Sprite Without Flipping the Object it is...

I ‘built’ (followed a tutorial) on a collision detection system, and when I flip the object to go left and right the collision messes up. So I have three options; find a way to modify the collision...

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2DRaycast is shooting slightly in wrong directions

I wanted just a simple 2DRaycast, which points from my character to my mousePointer. So I found the following code in the Internet, most people seem to use it like that. So I tried it, but it isn’t...

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Cursor position to a 3D ray using angles

I’ve been stuck for a month trying to get gluUnProject working. After my attempts to use gluUnProject failed (as well as attempts to implement gluUnProject functionality manually) I implemented method...

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Getting ray using gluUnProject or inverted MVP matrix

I’ve read a lot of topics here, on SO, opengl.org etc. Example how gluUnProject should work (from NeHe tutorial): winX = (float)x; winY = (float)viewport[3] - (float)y; glReadPixels( x, int(winY), 1,...

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characterController reference issue

I am trying to move my character to point that taken from mouse position. here is my code: private Vector3 hittedPoint=Vector3.zero; if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown (0)) { Ray ray =...

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Click to move – get NavMesh layer

I’m using NavMesh, and NavMeshAgent for my character movement and Pathfinding. I made a testing NavMesh with 2 area layers: 0 = Walkable 3 = Water. In have a click to move script, and i need to get the...

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