raycast 2d that applies force to a rigid body

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4.5.1

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was wondering how would one go about making a raycast apply force to a rigidbody on collision, i've been trying to see how i would be able to tell a script to only apply this force if it detects the collider is rigid body 2d and I can't seem wrap my head around collision scripting

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Hi,

Raycast by themselves do not do anything other than giving you the information that something was hit or not. Cool thing is, with a raycast, you have a direction, a distance, and the info of what node got hit, so you can easily apply a force to any object that has been hit by your raycast, you just have to do it in a few steps.

This is pseudo code, but that should look something like this:

var raycast_result: raycast(direction)      # Raycast
var hit_node = raycast_result.node          # Retrieve hit node for raycast
if hit_node:                                # Check if there's a node hit by raycast
    hit_node.position += direction * force  # Force application

Iā€™d suggest you give it a try and ask more specific questions about any issue you may encounter. The implementation may be tricky, but the idea is easy: cast your ray, and if something is detected, push it in the ray direction.

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