Raycasting Help

Questions & Answers
1

I’m trying to learn about Raycasting and am trying to use it to open a treasure chest. Basically, the chest will cast a ray that goes out a certain distance and if it collides with a gameobject tagged player, it should play an animation to open the treasure chest. For some reason, it is not recognizing the collision. Any Ideas?

 public Animation chestOpen;
 public RaycastHit hit;

 void openTreaure()
 {
     if(Physics.Raycast(transform.position, Vector3.forward, out hit, 200.0F))
     {
         if(hit.collider.gameObject.tag == "Player" )
         {
             print("In Range");
             animation.Play("box_open");
         }
     }
 }
2

I figured it out… As it turns out, the Treasure chest was on a slightly lower plane than the player. It was a dumb mistake on my part…