Resolved LayerMask not working

The RayCast documentation says:

You may optionally provide a LayerMask, to filter out any Colliders you aren't interested in generating collisions with.

but... I have this piece of code:

Code (CSharp):

1.       LayerMask mask = LayerMask.GetMask("Ground");
2.       if(Physics.Raycast(ray,out hit,mask)) {
3.          if(hit.collider.CompareTag("Ground")) {
4.             return hit.point;
5.          }
6.          Debug.Log("not ground: "+LayerMask.LayerToName(hit.collider.gameObject.layer));
7.       }

which produces this output:



Unless I'm misunderstanding something, any colliders outside the Ground layer have to be excluded, and because of that, the only possible way to reach the Debug statement is when the collider is not tagged as "Ground" but still on the Ground layer. However, the log shows that colliders from other layers are also being hit.

So the question is: is this a bug, or there's something I'm not seeing?

 

My fault... for anyone having a similar problem, if you're using Visual Studio, do not, and I repeat, do not, trust blindly what intellisense tells you. When typing the raycast statement it showed me the next parameter was the layermask and I assumed that was correct, but no, it is the maximum distance.

 

It was my fault because I assumed IntelliSense was pointing to the right overload, and I didn't read the whole implementation, so when I saw "layerMask" I just went ahead and typed the corresponding parameter.

 

THANK YOU so much ! This is the correct answer, keep an eye on the constructors of the Unity scripting API : https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.Raycast.html

 

This is still saving people from insanity, thanks dude!

 

Amazing, also was going nuts with this, then i read this, fixed the parameters and voala, everything working as expected.

 

Thank you!!!!!!

 

Thx I was having the same problem