Raycast not functioning

[SpiritMacardi]

First of all, hey everyone! I'm new to the forums, and I've been using/learning Leadwerks since the beginning of this year. It's been my first ever experience with making games, and I love how easy to use the engine is.

 

Anyway, I've hit a bit of a snag in my current endeavors. Basically, I'm trying to have it so that the character of my game attacks using a sphere that appears, moves forward a set amount, and then returns and vanishes once more. To detect a hit, I figured it would make sense to have a raycast that projects from the start point of the sphere out to its current position, but it fails to detect anything. I'll leave a copy of my code below, and hopefully someone will be able to tell me what I'm doing wrong and how I can correct it.

 

Script.player = "" --entity "Player"
Script.ringStart = "" --entity "Start position"
Script.ringEnd = "" --entity "End position"
function Script:Start()
self.returning = false
self.entity:Hide()
end
function Script:UpdatePhysics()
local pickinfo = PickInfo()
if self.entity:Hidden() == false then

 if self.returning == false then

  if self.entity:GetDistance(self.ringEnd) < 0.1 then

   self.returning = true

  else

   self.entity:Move(0.1, 0, 0)

   local bulletPos = self.entity:GetPosition(false)
   local startPos = self.ringStart:GetPosition(false)

   if (self.entity.world:Pick(bulletPos, startPos, pickinfo, 0, false)) then

 System:Print("Part 1 working")

   end

  end

 end

 if self.returning == true then

  if self.entity:GetDistance(self.ringStart) < 0.1 then

   self.returning = false
   self.entity:Hide()

  else

   self.entity:Move(-0.1, 0, 0)

  end

 end

end
end

[Rick]

self.entity.world

 

That part looks strange. Are you getting an error? I've never checked to see if self.entity had a world variable in it. I would think it wouldn't. Usually you could get the current world at the top of your function or store it in a variable in start.

 

function Script:UpdateWorld()
 local world = World:GetCurrent()

-- now use world:Pick()
end

[SpiritMacardi]

I hadn't gotten any errors, and I just tried your suggestion and I'm still not getting any results.

 

Scratch that! I just got a working raycast by simply setting the GetPosition() commands to true!