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Keeping raycast on the same level

I want my raycast to end at certain height(red line). But as the game is 3D and the camera rotates I can't use a fixed magnitude. What I thought was a stroke of genius, I figured I'd project the ...
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Raycasting tutorial / vector math question

I'm checking out this nice raycasting tutorial at http://lodev.org/cgtutor/raycasting.html and have a probably very simple math question. In the DDA algorithm I'm having trouble understanding the ...
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Is it safe to cast my 2D points to 3D points for a library which only takes Vector3s?

I need to cast a ray in 2D space for bullet collision detection, but the Ray.Intersects method requires a BoundingBox which uses vector3's not vector2's. My question is should I just ignore the Z ...
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XNA - Incorrect Mouse Ray?

I have the following code: Vector3 nearSource = new Vector3(mState.X, mState.Y, 0.0f); Vector3 farSource = new Vector3(mState.X, mState.Y, 3.0f); Vector3 nearPoint = ...