Sphere Cast

[Nog]

Hello,

If the radius of the sphere cast can be adjusted, is it possible to create a sphere or cylinder shape around a game object using a sphere cast? I am picturing a ray cast line that is much thicker than it is long.

[mdotstrange]

You might want to check out capsulecast https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.CapsuleCast.html

[Nog]

Thank you mdotstrange. If the capsulecast was used around a character or game object, could the capsulecast be used to trigger events like the Trigger Event acion? I noticed that it mentions that "CapsuleCast will not detect colliders for which the capsule overlaps the collider." I suppose that would not make it very reliable. By any chance, is there a Playmaker action for the capsulecast? Again, thank you for the help.

[mdotstrange]

All of the casts can return the hit object from then which you can get the tag and layer of the object- so yes, you can use it like a trigger event-

About the overlapping- I would test it first as it might do the job- a collider set to trigger will miss some overlapping objects as well if only using On Trigger Enter- you have to use On Trigger Stay to catch everything-

There's also OverlapCapsules https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.OverlapCapsule.html which get the overlapping objects but only return colliders- but you could filter the hit colliders to find specific tagged objects etc-

If the action exists it would probably be on Ecosystem-