Bullet not showing when shooting at Skybox?

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#1

I’m creating a MP5 gun tool and it works so far, however, when firing into the Skybox, no bullet trace shows up. It shows up when I’m firing at a basepart or a part.

shotEvent.OnServerEvent:Connect(function(player, firearmPosition, firearmOrientation, mousePos, shot, firearm)
	
	if firearm:WaitForChild("MagazineAmmo").Value > 0 and firearm:WaitForChild("CanShoot").Value == true and firearm.Parent.Name == player.Name then
		if firearm.Name == "MP5" and firearm:WaitForChild("MP5_Shot") then
			-- Decrease magazine ammo by 1
			--print(firearm:WaitForChild("MagazineAmmo").Value)
			firearm:WaitForChild("MagazineAmmo").Value -= 1
			print(firearm:WaitForChild("MagazineAmmo").Value)

			wait(1 / (800 / 60))
			
			-- Raycast Bullet
			local rayOrigin = firearm:WaitForChild("BulletExit").Position
			local rayDirection = ((mousePos - rayOrigin).Unit) * 1000
			
			-- Remove muzzle from raycast instances
			local raycastParams = RaycastParams.new()
			raycastParams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {firearm:WaitForChild("BulletExit")}
			raycastParams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist
			
			local raycastResult = workspace:Raycast(rayOrigin, rayDirection, raycastParams)
			
			local bullet = Instance.new("Part")
			local speed = 500

			bullet.Name = "Bullet"
			bullet.Parent = game.Workspace
			bullet.Size = Vector3.new(0.25, 0.25, 0.25)
			bullet.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("New Yeller")
			bullet.Massless = true
			bullet.Anchored = true
			bullet.Material = Enum.Material.Neon
			bullet.CanCollide = false
			
			-- If there is a raycast result
			if raycastResult and raycastResult.Instance then
				-- Moves to the center of the two parts
				local center = (raycastResult.Position + rayOrigin) / 2
				-- Makes size of bullet big enough to stretch from origin to raycast
				bullet.Size = Vector3.new(0.05, 0.05, (rayOrigin - raycastResult.Position).Magnitude)
				bullet.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(center, raycastResult.Position)
			else -- If there isn't a result (ex: skybox) shoot bullet into air (THIS ISNT WORKING)
				print("NOT HITTING")
				local center = (mousePos + rayOrigin) / 2 
				bullet.Size = Vector3.new(0.05, 0.05, (rayOrigin - mousePos).Magnitude)
				bullet.CFrame = CFrame.new(center, mousePos)
				--bullet.CFrame = CFrame.new(rayOrigin, mousePos) -- WORKS
			end
			
			-- Gradually erase the part starting from muzzle to end
			
			wait(0.05)
			bullet:Destroy()

The code that I’m having problems with is closer to the end of the code in the else statement.

#2 
if raycastResult and raycastResult.Instance then

try replacing this with

if raycastResult then
#3

Use raycastResult.Position rather than Instance for position. If the ray hits nothing, it will return no instance.

#4

also for bullet size replace

bullet.Size = Vector3.new(0.05, 0.05, (rayOrigin - mousePos).Magnitude)

with

bullet.Size = Vector3.new(0.05, 0.05, raycastResult.Distance)
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#5

it won’t really matter because the script checks if raycast hit anything