# Box Cast

### Description

Casts the box along a ray and returns detailed information on what was hit.

{% hint style="info" %}
**bool** True, if any intersections were found.
{% endhint %}

**To create it**, right-click on free space in AI Tree inspector and select <mark style="color:purple;">Create Node/Tasks/Physics/Box Cast.</mark>

This task node has a number of fields, that are highlighted in picture below.

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### Fields

| Name                      | Description                                                  |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Node Name                 | Name of node                                                 |
| Ignore Abort Self         | Whether node ignores abort self or not                       |
| Origin                    | Origin of the Box Cast                                       |
| Direction                 | Direction in which to cast the box                           |
| Half Extents              | Half the size of the box in each dimension                   |
| Max Distance              | Max length of the cast (by default: *infinity*)              |
| Culling Layer             | Used to selectively ignore colliders when casting a Box Cast |
| Query Trigger Interaction | Specifies whether this query should hit Triggers             |

### Message

| Name     | Description                                                       |
| -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Message  | Value of message                                                  |
| Argument | Argument of message in [Blackboard](/ai-tree/basic/blackboard.md) |


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