Setting any height value when performing a capsule cast is impossible?

Wow! This was a clear question until all of the edits. Now it's sort of unclear what you're asking. Also, including the time without a time zone is sort of meaningless as it will be different times in different places.

The question+the first 2 of the edits

Physics.CapsuleCast performs a sweep of a capsule in 3D space and returns true if it hit anything. These are the parameters:

• point1 : The start of the capsule.
• point2 : The end of the capsule.
• radius : The radius of the capsule.
• direction : The direction into which to sweep the capsule.
• hitInfo : If true is returned, hitInfo will contain more information about where the collider was hit (See Also: RaycastHit).
• distance : The length of the sweep
• layerMask : A Layer mask that is used to selectively ignore colliders when casting a capsule.

point1 and point 2 define the height and center of the capsule to sweep and radius defines the radius of the capsule to sweep. These exist because capsule cast can cast a capsule that is not axis-aligned, whereas CharacterController is defined differently because it is axis-aligned.

direction and distance define the sweep of the capsule.

In the linked script reference you provide, they even give you example code which defines a capsule from a character controller's capsule. All you needed to do was change the direction of the cast and the distance that you used in that code rather than write your code sample.

The third edit

Your comment about isTrigger is sort of confusing. Was there a question in there?

"The speed of the controller greatly affects the measurements"...of what? What measurements? If you mean to say that as your CharacterController moves faster, collision detection is less precise or as your CharacterController moves faster you need to Capsulecast further to detect obstacles in advance, then both of those are obvious and well-documented and the note is unnecessary.

Now you're asking about Spherecast? Which is it? What does this have to do with isTrigger? Are you asking if or why or how to deal with your capsulecast or spherecast colliding with objects whose isTrigger property is set? What are you asking here?

The "final" edit

1: How do I build and see a spherecast, or can someone explain it clear enough with a construction example and maybe some sort of image or image description? Debug.DrawLine is not really doing the job for me. I want to see what I'm doing with the point 1 and point 2 variables.

• Again, spherecast or capsulecast? Spherecast doesn't have a point1 or point2.
• I don't know what you mean by "A construction example", but I will explain the makeup of a capsule and what a capuslecast does with it:

I don't have free image hosting or any intention to seek it out, so enjoy ASCII art:

___ / \ | | //This is a sphere of radius r ___/

<> || //This is a cylinder of radius r and height h <>

//A capsule is two spheres and a cylinder __ / \ //One sphere | | | | //The cylinder | | __/ //The other sphere

//Point 1 is the top of one sphere and point 2 to is the bottom of the other //r is the radius of both the spheres and the cylinder //h = distance(p1, p2) - 2 * r

To build your own capsule:

• create two spheres and a cylinder.
• The x and z positions of the spheres and cylinder must be the same.
• The x,y,z scale of the spheres must equal the x,z scale of the cylinder.
• The y position of sphere 1 is the y scale of the cylinder.
• The y position of sphere 2 is the negative y scale of the cylinder.

Point 1 in your custom capsule will be at the y position of sphere 1 + radius. Point 2 in your custom capsule will be at the y position of sphere 2 - radius.

A CapsuleCast sweeps a capsule through space in the direction provided by the distance provided. Essentially, to "visualize it", it's the same as having two capsules located direction*distance away from each other with a box connecting the cylinders of two capsule and cylinders connecting the spheres of the two capsules. The object closest to the start capsule that is inside of the end capsule AND/OR the connecting box + cylinders, but NOT within the starting capsule will be returned as having been hit if the outward faces of the collider faced toward the capsule being swept. Unfortunately, neither Gizmos nor Debug provides the primitives necessary to represent this easily in the editor. You could draw each and every line outlining the contours of the capsule and the cast, (about 800 or so for an accurate representation) and good luck with that.

What you are doing with point1 and point2 is setting the position, orientation and length of the capsule being swept by the CapsuleCast.

From the docs on CapsuleCollider

point1 is the leftmost point of the capsule and then height+2*radius to the right (on the opposite end of the capsule) is point2. The distance between point1 and point2 is the length of the capsule. The direction from one point to the other is the direction of the capsule. The point half-way between point1 and point2 is the center of the capsule.

2: What is the effect of the isTrigger property on a collider I interact with using RayCast or any other form of such casting? Since they gave me different results I would expect it to have an effect. What could that be?

There is no effect on Raycast. isTrigger should not have any effect on raycasting or any form of casting whatsoever. isTrigger will affect collisions and message sending. It is likely that your raycast situation is inconsistent or incorrect in some way or that you are talking about your collisions rather than your raycasts.

If isTrigger is set, Trigger events will be sent whenever a collider and a collider with a rigidbody would collide, whereas if isTrigger is not set, Collision events will be sent, but not for non-kinematic rigidbodies. Additionally, collision detection is also dependent upon the velocity of the rigidbody and its collision detection setting. See here and here for more.