How to raycast in Unity

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In Unity, Raycast uses mathematical variables like position, range etc. to make this possible. You can specify from where to where you want the ray to be cast or you can also cast a ray for an infinite distance in a particular direction. You can also ignore layers during ray casting. Raycast requires colliders in order to interact with the gameobjects. Any gameobject without colliders will not trigger a hit. The object hit will be available in Raycasthit. When is Raycast used? Raycast can be used for many purposes in gaming. Mostly it is used to find objects in a particular direction or for shooting. But, one thing to be kept in mind while using Raycast is the effect on performance. If you cast multiple rays of infinite length then your game performance is going to suffer. The general practice is to Raycast when some action happens. For example, in a shooting script Raycast is done only when the mouse button is pressed. An important thing to note is Raycasts will not detect colliders for which the Raycast origin is inside the collider. Raycasting in Unity You need to know about a few components before making a proper Raycast. RaycastHit - this variable type is used to store the information received from the Raycast. Layermask- this is used to mask one particular layer you want the ray to interact or ignore.Range - this specifies the range up to which the casted ray will travel. It is always a better option to specify range as it helps in performance. Raycasts from Camera Let's cast a basic ray from our camera in the forward direction. All you need to do is to attach a script to the camera and add the below line of code to the script using UnityEngine public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour { void FixedUpdate() { RaycastHit hit; if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), out hit, 10)) { Debug.Log(hit.gameobject); } else { Debug.Log(\"Did not Hit\"); } } } In the above script we are Raycasting to a range of 10 Units in the forward direction. \"Physics.Raycast\" returns true if the ray hit a collider or else it will return false. In the Raycast syntax the first input is the origin place, second is the direction, third is the output and fourth is the range. We can also add another variable layermask to it. We will discuss about it in the next section. Should you Raycast in Update or Fixed Update? The reason I used fixed update is because Raycast is a physics property and also it will help you to stop Raycasting when you pause your game with timescale. Raycasting between two points You need to tweak the above code a little to cast a ray between two points. I am assuming you are attaching this script to point1. if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, point2.transform.position-transform.position , out hit, 10)) { Debug.Log(\"object is at 10 units range\"); } Alternatively, you can use the linecast function to cast a line between two points. Linecast will return true if there are any objects with colliders between the two points. You can use the layermask to ignore some objects. if (Physics.Linecast(transform.position, point2.transform.position)) { Debug.Log(\"colliders found between the two position\"); } Raycasting from mouse point Mouse point is a little bit trickier than other things in Unity. The device screen is 2D and the game world is 3D. So, you need to convert the mouse point to game world position. You need to use the camera for this purpose. Go ahead and tag your camera as main camera before proceeding. Converting mouse position to ray Ray ray Camera.Main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition); Cast a ray with the range and hit attribute if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 10)) { Debug.Log(hit.gameobject); } How to ignore a layer in Raycast? It often comes to a situation where we don't want the ray to hit everything. For example, implementing friendly fire in an FPS game. You don't want your fire to hit friends so, you can just add the friendly players to a layer and ignore them from Raycast. To ignore a layer from the Ray casted, you just need to add the bit mask of the layer index to your Raycast expression. You need to add the variable shown below and modify the if statement from the above code. You can also get more information on layermask from Unity manual. int layerMask 1 << 5;\/\/bit mask for layer number 5 layerMask~layerMask \/\/add the 2nd line if you want to ignore layer 5 if not added it will Raycast only to layer 5 if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), out hit, 10, layerMask)) Raycasthit Raycasthit contains all details about the object hit by the Raycast. If the Raycast does not hit any object then Raycasthit returns \"Null\". You can get the following details about the hit object. Gameobject.Collider attached to the object.Distance of the object from the origin.TransformRigidbody details Is Raycasting performance expensive? In Unity3D, Raycast is a very helpful function but needs to be used carefully. Many developers avoid Raycast in order to boost performance. But you need not worry unless you are making a very performance hungry game. Just keep in mind a few things and you should be good. Never forget to provide the range of Raycasts.Try to avoid multiple Raycasts simultaneously.Use Raycast with a condition like button press inside Update.Avoid Raycasting against a mesh collider.Use layer mask effectively. Raycastall in Unity3D If you are looking for a list or array of objects hit by a Raycast, then Raycastall is your best option. RaycastHit[] hits; hits Physics.RaycastAll(transform.position, transform.forward, 50.0F); foreach(Raycasthit i in hits) { Debug.Log(i.gameobject); } make raycast visible in the editor You can use Debug.DrawRay(origin,direction,color) to draw a ray in the Unity editor. But to make it similar to the ray we have cast you need to use the same ray. Normally to cast a ray, you don't need to create a ray variable. You can put the raycast expression in an if statement and it will return true if it hits something. To draw the ray, we will create a ray variable that takes the origin and direction as input. Then we draw a ray with these properties. using UnityEngine; public class Raycasting : MonoBehaviour { RaycastHit hit; void FixedUpdate() { Ray raynew Ray(transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward)); if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 10)) { Debug.Log(hit.collider); } else { Debug.DrawRay(ray.origin, ray.direction*10f,Color.red); Debug.Log(\"Did not Hit\"); } } } Length of Debug.DrawRay Unity3D docs is little silent on this area. It doesn't clearly state how to control the length of the ray in Debug.DrawRay. Length of the ray depends on the magnitude of the direction vector. In the above example, we have used a unit vector and multiplied it with the required length. You cannot multiply it with Mathf.Infinity to make it infinite in length. it doesn't work. You can only raycast with infinite length but cannot draw a ray. You can use a big number like 100000f to solve the problem. Debug.DrawRay(ray.origin, ray.direction*10000f,Color.red); Make Ray visible in game The above section was about making the ray visible in Unity editor but if you build the game the ray won't be visible in the game. If you want the ray to be visible in your game then you need to use the line renderer. You can set the start and end point as shown in the script below. using UnityEngine; public class Raycasting : MonoBehaviour { LineRenderer lin; RaycastHit hit; void Start() { linGetComponent (); } void FixedUpdate() { Ray raynew Ray(transform.position,transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward)); if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 10)) { Debug.Log(hit.collider); } else { lin.SetPosition(0,ray.origin); lin.SetPosition(1,ray.direction*10f); Debug.Log(\"Did not Hit\"); } } Raycast2D in Unity3D Raycasts can be used in 2D games too but a normal Raycast will not collide with 2D colliders. You need to use Raycast2D for this purpose. You just need to replace all the 3D components in the code with 2D. using UnityEngine public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour { void FixedUpdate() { RaycastHit2D hit; if (Physics2D.Raycast2D(transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector2.forward), out hit, 10)) { Debug.Log(hit.gameobject); } else { Debug.Log(\"Did not Hit\"); } } } Hope the post covered all the required aspects of Raycast. 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So, in this post we will be going through some basics of Raycast and then also see some code samples that you can use in your game. Our objective is to make sure you understand the below line of code by the end of the post. Contents hide 1 What is Raycast in Unity? 2 When is Raycast used? 3 Raycasting in Unity 3.1 Raycasts from Camera 3.1.1 Should you Raycast in Update or Fixed Update? 3.2 Raycasting between two points 3.3 Raycasting from mouse point 3.4 How to ignore a layer in Raycast? 3.5 Raycasthit 3.6 Is Raycasting performance expensive? 3.7 Raycastall in Unity3D 4 make raycast visible in the editor 4.1 Length of Debug.DrawRay 5 Make Ray visible in game 6 Raycast2D in Unity3D 6.1 Related Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), out hit, Mathf.Infinity, layerMask) What is Raycast in Unity? Raycast as the name suggests is to casts a ray from one position to another. It’s simply like a laser beam in the gaming world. In Unity, Raycast uses mathematical variables like position, range etc. to make this possible. You can specify from where to where you want the ray to be cast or you can also cast a ray for an infinite distance in a particular direction. You can also ignore layers during ray casting. Raycast requires colliders in order to interact with the gameobjects. Any gameobject without colliders will not trigger a hit. The object hit will be available in Raycasthit. When is Raycast used? Raycast can be used for many purposes in gaming. Mostly it is used to find objects in a particular direction or for shooting. But, one thing to be kept in mind while using Raycast is the effect on performance. If you cast multiple rays of infinite length then your game performance is going to suffer. The general practice is to Raycast when some action happens. For example, in a shooting script Raycast is done only when the mouse button is pressed. An important thing to note is Raycasts will not detect colliders for which the Raycast origin is inside the collider. Raycasting in Unity You need to know about a few components before making a proper Raycast. RaycastHit – this variable type is used to store the information received from the Raycast. Layermask- this is used to mask one particular layer you want the ray to interact or ignore. Range – this specifies the range up to which the casted ray will travel. It is always a better option to specify range as it helps in performance. Raycasts from Camera Let’s cast a basic ray from our camera in the forward direction. All you need to do is to attach a script to the camera and add the below line of code to the script using UnityEngine public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour { void FixedUpdate() { RaycastHit hit; if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), out hit, 10)) { Debug.Log(hit.gameobject); } else { Debug.Log("Did not Hit"); } } } In the above script we are Raycasting to a range of 10 Units in the forward direction. “Physics.Raycast” returns true if the ray hit a collider or else it will return false. In the Raycast syntax the first input is the origin place, second is the direction, third is the output and fourth is the range. We can also add another variable layermask to it. We will discuss about it in the next section. Should you Raycast in Update or Fixed Update? The reason I used fixed update is because Raycast is a physics property and also it will help you to stop Raycasting when you pause your game with timescale. Raycasting between two points You need to tweak the above code a little to cast a ray between two points. I am assuming you are attaching this script to point1. if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, point2.transform.position-transform.position , out hit, 10)) { Debug.Log("object is at 10 units range"); } Alternatively, you can use the linecast function to cast a line between two points. Linecast will return true if there are any objects with colliders between the two points. You can use the layermask to ignore some objects. if (Physics.Linecast(transform.position, point2.transform.position)) { Debug.Log("colliders found between the two position"); } Raycasting from mouse point Mouse point is a little bit trickier than other things in Unity. The device screen is 2D and the game world is 3D. So, you need to convert the mouse point to game world position. You need to use the camera for this purpose. Go ahead and tag your camera as main camera before proceeding. Converting mouse position to ray Ray ray = Camera.Main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition); Cast a ray with the range and hit attribute if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 10)) { Debug.Log(hit.gameobject); } How to ignore a layer in Raycast? It often comes to a situation where we don’t want the ray to hit everything. For example, implementing friendly fire in an FPS game. You don’t want your fire to hit friends so, you can just add the friendly players to a layer and ignore them from Raycast. To ignore a layer from the Ray casted, you just need to add the bit mask of the layer index to your Raycast expression. You need to add the variable shown below and modify the if statement from the above code. You can also get more information on layermask from Unity manual. int layerMask = 1 << 5;//bit mask for layer number 5 layerMask=~layerMask //add the 2nd line if you want to ignore layer 5 if not added it will Raycast only to layer 5 if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward), out hit, 10, layerMask)) Raycasthit Raycasthit contains all details about the object hit by the Raycast. If the Raycast does not hit any object then Raycasthit returns “Null”. You can get the following details about the hit object. Gameobject. Collider attached to the object. Distance of the object from the origin. Transform Rigidbody details Is Raycasting performance expensive? In Unity3D, Raycast is a very helpful function but needs to be used carefully. Many developers avoid Raycast in order to boost performance. But you need not worry unless you are making a very performance hungry game. Just keep in mind a few things and you should be good. Never forget to provide the range of Raycasts. Try to avoid multiple Raycasts simultaneously. Use Raycast with a condition like button press inside Update. Avoid Raycasting against a mesh collider. Use layer mask effectively. Raycastall in Unity3D If you are looking for a list or array of objects hit by a Raycast, then Raycastall is your best option. RaycastHit[] hits; hits = Physics.RaycastAll(transform.position, transform.forward, 50.0F); foreach(Raycasthit i in hits) { Debug.Log(i.gameobject); } make raycast visible in the editor You can use Debug.DrawRay(origin,direction,color) to draw a ray in the Unity editor. But to make it similar to the ray we have cast you need to use the same ray. Normally to cast a ray, you don’t need to create a ray variable. You can put the raycast expression in an if statement and it will return true if it hits something. To draw the ray, we will create a ray variable that takes the origin and direction as input. Then we draw a ray with these properties. using UnityEngine; public class Raycasting : MonoBehaviour { RaycastHit hit; void FixedUpdate() { Ray ray=new Ray(transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward)); if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 10)) { Debug.Log(hit.collider); } else { Debug.DrawRay(ray.origin, ray.direction*10f,Color.red); Debug.Log("Did not Hit"); } } } Length of Debug.DrawRay Unity3D docs is little silent on this area. It doesn’t clearly state how to control the length of the ray in Debug.DrawRay. Length of the ray depends on the magnitude of the direction vector. In the above example, we have used a unit vector and multiplied it with the required length. You cannot multiply it with Mathf.Infinity to make it infinite in length. it doesn’t work. You can only raycast with infinite length but cannot draw a ray. You can use a big number like 100000f to solve the problem. Debug.DrawRay(ray.origin, ray.direction*10000f,Color.red); Make Ray visible in game The above section was about making the ray visible in Unity editor but if you build the game the ray won’t be visible in the game. If you want the ray to be visible in your game then you need to use the line renderer. You can set the start and end point as shown in the script below. using UnityEngine; public class Raycasting : MonoBehaviour { LineRenderer lin; RaycastHit hit; void Start() { lin=GetComponent (); } void FixedUpdate() { Ray ray=new Ray(transform.position,transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward)); if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 10)) { Debug.Log(hit.collider); } else { lin.SetPosition(0,ray.origin); lin.SetPosition(1,ray.direction*10f); Debug.Log("Did not Hit"); } } Raycast2D in Unity3D Raycasts can be used in 2D games too but a normal Raycast will not collide with 2D colliders. You need to use Raycast2D for this purpose. You just need to replace all the 3D components in the code with 2D. using UnityEngine public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour { void FixedUpdate() { RaycastHit2D hit; if (Physics2D.Raycast2D(transform.position, transform.TransformDirection(Vector2.forward), out hit, 10)) { Debug.Log(hit.gameobject); } else { Debug.Log("Did not Hit"); } } } Hope the post covered all the required aspects of Raycast. If you have any question, you can leave them in the comment section below. Related Categories Unity Tutorials Post navigation How to pause a game in Unity How to install Unity without Hub in 2 simple steps Leave a Reply Cancel reply document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () { var commentForms = document.getElementsByClassName('jetpack_remote_comment'); for (var i = 0; i < commentForms.length; i++) { commentForms[i].allowTransparency = false; commentForms[i].scrolling = 'no'; } }); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. 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