raycast with an offset at hit.point? Easy for someone!

Hi, Im raycasting which then gives me a hit.point, all good. However, what i want is to give the hit.point an offset TOWARDS the origin of the raycast. The ray can be cast from any angles, which is the bit thats confusing me. I need the offset to always be a certain disnce back towards its origin.

Thanks
Andy

 

Take the hit.point and subtract the normalized ray direction times the offset distance you want.

Code (CSharp):

1. float offset = 5; // <-- put any number here
2. Vector3 offsetPoint = hit.point - rayDirection.normalized * offset;

 

Try something like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. Vector3 offsetPoint = Vector3.Lerp(hit.point, rayOrigin, 0.25f);

The 'rayOrigin' is your starting position for the ray. Increasing 0.25f to something bigger will move it closer to the ray origin. (1 is at the origin, 0 is at hit.point)

 

Thanks, tried both (just out of interest) and found both seem to do the trick. Thanks