Did Raycast Change?

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Unity answers on how to produce raycasts such as: Raycasting from center of screen instead of mouse location - Questions & Answers - Unity Discussions

suggest you use something like:

           Ray ray = Camera.main.ViewportPointToRay(new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f, 0f));
           RaycastHit hit = new RaycastHit();

            if (Physics.Raycast(ray, hit, 600))
            {

            }

Whereas the API documentation says…

        Vector3 fwd = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.forward);

        if (Physics.Raycast(transform.position, fwd, 10)) 
            print("There is something in front of the object!");

And the aforementioned method does not work, or rather the method overload does not exist so I’m assuming it changed.

Did it in-fact change? If so, why?

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Raycast hasn’t changed. But many of us write replies from memory so it’s unsurprising that you might find answers that use incorrect syntax.