How do raycasts calculate distance?

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I’m having trouble with a complicated problem and I’m worried the raycasts may be messing everything up. I was thinking, do they calculate the distance from the center of the object or from the edge of the hitbox?

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I don’t know but you should be able to test this (you have indie so you can make another game), by making a raycast touch the edge and then test the center.

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the edge of the hitbox

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Actually, there is a problem with the raycast in Flowlab. It’s detects the raduis of the center of the object. This is also a big issue with objects that are long because the distance doesn’t match up.

Tinksersmith goes over it in more detail:
raycaster games - #10 by TinkerSmith

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