boxcast

BoxCast is a simple, flexible, and fast solution intended for casting boxes in the Roblox Engine.

How Does BoxCast work?

BoxCast essentially works by calculating a derived verisions of the origin & the direction you provided, and then cast a ray using those dervied values.

How fast can it be?

BoxCast can be really fast. In our benchmarks, we have seen an average of 200 microseconds. Check the benchs folder in this repro for the benchmarkings.

Install BoxCast

BoxCast can be downloaded through the following:

• Using Rojo manually: Grab the src folder from the repro, which you can get by going to the desired release, and grabbing the source zip.
• Using Wally: To download BoxCast using Wally, past the following under dependencies in wally.toml:
  • sinlerdev/boxcast/@X.X.X, replace the Xs with the version you want to install.
• Using Studio: Grab the BoxCast rbxm from the desired release.

Contribution

Contributing is heavily welcomed!