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Cast ray to select block in voxel game

I am developing a game with a Minecraft-like terrain made out of blocks. Since basic rendering and chunk loading is done now, I want to implement block selecting. Therefore I need to find out what ...
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3D Ray Casting / Picking

I am not sure if I should post this link, but I feel this falls into game development just as much as it does math. I have a ray cast's far and near values and I am trying to calculate the end point ...
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How to determine what triangle in a mesh the cursor is pointing to?

I have a game I'm working on in which items are "placed" and "selected". In order to do this, I need to determine what triangle in a mesh the cursor is pointing to. I have no trouble with getting ...