Rotating RayCast3D giving different results

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Godot Version

4.2.1.stable

Question

I’m using a RayCast3D to determine the direction my character is pointing by using the to_global method on the RayCast3D’s target_position property. When I rotate the main CharacterBody node the target position changes like I expect but if I rotate the RayCast directly the target_position property never changes even though with the collision shapes debugger turned on I can see the RayCast is indeed rotating. Does anyone have any idea why the target_position is not changing?

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did you do all these by script or just by editor using gizmos to rotate the nodes?
i tried by gizmos, it rotate as expected

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Isn’t this because it’s target position isn’t changing because it’s the same position relative to its parent, and the parent is rotating?

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I’m setting the rotation.y in code. It visually rotates but the target_position is not changing.

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If I get the target_position directly it does return the local position but if I use the to_global function on the target_position I get the actual coordinates. I just did some more testing and when I rotate the character the target_position does update but if I rotate the raycast directly it does not update the target_position.

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I created a little demo of the issue I’m talking about:

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