How to get mouse.hit position without using the mouse object

I want to forgo the mouse object and mouse.hit or mouse.target as the doccumentation says that it is better to use userinputservice. BUT I can not for the life of me figure out how to get a mouse position without using the mouse object. Is there something I am missing? Like an obscure Enum.UserInputType or something?

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local mouse = game.UserInputService:GetMouseLocation()
local ray = workspace.Camera:ViewportPointToRay(mouse.X, mouse.Y)
local result = workspace:Raycast(ray.Origin, ray.Direction * 1000)
if result then
	local hit = CFrame.new(result.Position)
end
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If I may ask, Why do they want us to not use mouse.hit?

Because the Mouse object is deprecated or superseded by UserInputService.

It’s mostly about making your game have multi-platform support. UIS has much broader scope. Having said that, it’s not deprecated - but it might be in the future.

I just find that using the mouse object is cleaner and leads to easier to read code.

UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(Input)
	if Input.UserInputType==Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
		local mouse = game.UserInputService:GetMouseLocation()
		local ray = workspace.Camera:ViewportPointToRay(mouse.X, mouse.Y)
		local result = workspace:Raycast(ray.Origin, ray.Direction * 1000)
		if result then
			local hit = result.Position--CFrame.new(result.Position)
			makepart(hit)
		end
	end
end)
--compared to
UIS.InputBegan:Connect(function(Input)
	if Input.UserInputType==Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
		local hit=mouse.Hit.Position
		makepart(hit)
	end
end)

I am aware that in the second example, if you click on nothing it just makes a part in the middle of nowhere.

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You could make a function so you don’t need to write it all out but I find the first example better because I don’t like the mixing of UserInputService and Mouse in the second one.

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