🧙‍♂️Fishing Caster

Handles the logic for casting a fishing line into water — finds valid spots, avoids obstacles, and works with your bobber system. Great for fishing minigames or open-world fishing mechanics.

✅ Requires: A BobberController component on the same GameObject.

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🔧 Inspector Settings

⚙️ Active

Toggle whether this caster is enabled.

🎯 Player Radius Casting

This section controls where and how the game searches for water in front of the player.

• Cast Distance How far forward from the player to start searching. Think: “How far can I cast?”

• Search Radius The size of the sphere used to scan for water colliders around the target point.

• Height Offset Vertical offset applied to the center of the search sphere. Adjust if your character casts from above or below eye level.

• Cast Start Height Where the raycast begins when checking for clear line-of-sight to water. Helps avoid terrain clipping.

🔄 Cast Bias

Adds a slight left/right preference to each cast — useful for simulating natural variation or “favoring” one side.

• Left Bias Strength Pulls the cast slightly to the left on even casts.

• Right Bias Strength Pulls the cast slightly to the right on odd casts.

• Prefer Closer Spots If enabled, picks the nearest valid water spot within range. If disabled, picks randomly (good for variety).

🌊 Water Detection

Tells Unity what counts as water and what blocks your line.

• Water Layer Set this to the layer your water surfaces are on (e.g., “Water”). Default is set automatically if empty.

• Blocking Layers Layers that block line-of-sight to water (like terrain, rocks, or walls). Usually “Default” or “Terrain”.

👁️ Debug

Enable to see spheres, rays, and hit points drawn in Scene view. Super helpful for tuning distances and avoiding obstructions.

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📈 Public Methods

TryCastToWater(out Vector3 waterHitPoint, out GameObject hitWaterObject)

Attempts to find a valid water surface to cast to.

• Returns true if a spot is found and unobstructed.

• Sets waterHitPoint to the world position where the bobber should land.

• Sets hitWaterObject to the actual water GameObject hit (useful for effects or sound triggers).

💡 Tip: Call this before triggering your animation or spawning the bobber.

InformWaterHit(Vector3 point)

Tells the attached BobberController where the water was hit. Usually called after TryCastToWater() succeeds.