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hitscan

noun

Etymology

From hit + scan.

  1. derived from *skend-✻
  2. inherited from scanne — “to mark off verse to show metrical structure”
  3. compounded as hitscan — “hit + scan”

Definitions

  1. A calculation to find the point at which a given line intersects an object in the game…

    A calculation to find the point at which a given line intersects an object in the game world, commonly used to determine whether a bullet or projectile hits a target.

    • With this code the server now has enough information to perform hitscans: it has the position of the player, the player orientation, and the player look direction (camera rotation).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hitscan. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA