Using a Empty GameObject "Grouper" - Won't Ignore Raycast

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I have a group of AI characters grouped inside an empty Game Object. The empty Game Object is just there for organizing the hierarchy - I’ll call it my “grouper”. My problem comes when another AI is trying to use a raycast to confirm line of sight to an enemy. It always hits the grouper Game Object instead of the AI itself, and hence returns an object I don’t care about.

I set the grouper Game Object to the “Ignore Raycast” layer (but left the AI characters in default) thinking that would fix my problem, but it did not.

Is there a way around this that I am missing?

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Raycasts only hit colliders. So, unless your “grouper” object has a collider component (which it shouldn’t), it won’t be detected - there must be some other bug with your code.