[friagram]

You are assuming your drawn beam reflects what you think is happening. It is not.
I use trace all the time, and it always works as expected.
You need to understand how it works, and do proper vector maths, in proper situations.

Trace will always hit if it is infinite, it will hit the void if nothing else.
I can tell you do not understand as you are checking that, and using EX when you could just be using the global result.
Your end position may be the result of it hitting the void out in the boonies, and your drawn beam just connects the origin to that meaningless endpoint. This is the most likely conclusion, as a tempent beam will not draw in the void, but will through all visleafs.

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Originally Posted by friagram You are assuming your drawn beam reflects what you think is happening. It is not. I use trace all the time, and it always works as expected. You need to understand how it works, and do proper vector maths, in proper situations. Trace will always hit if it is infinite, it will hit the void if nothing else. I can tell you do not understand as you are checking that, and using EX when you could just be using the global result. Your end position may be the result of it hitting the void out in the boonies, and your drawn beam just connects the origin to that meaningless endpoint. This is the most likely conclusion, as a tempent beam will not draw in the void, but will through all visleafs.

Thanks for the thoughts. But everything you described it done right in my snippt.

My assumption of the Beams and VectorMath is correct to 100%

The solution is that I'm using the wrong starting position (had it right in the draw but not ray)

PHP Code:

Handle trace = TR_TraceRayFilterEx([B]targetPos[/B], beamAngles, MASK_VISIBLE, RayType_Infinite, TraceRayNoPlayers, client); 


[friagram]

So the beam was not representing what was happening because you did the wrong math (used wrong variable). Sounds exactly like what I said.

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Originally Posted by friagram So the beam was not representing what was happening because you did the wrong math (used wrong variable). Sounds exactly like what I said.

okay... the beam did not represent the ray.... But the math was right <.<