Custom mouse raycast issue

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#1

Hello developers, I would like to know what is causing my raycast to break.
I’ve tried to replace the old raycast with a custom one but for whatever reason it just stays where it started initially upon joining.

local userInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")

local player = game.Players.LocalPlayer
local mouse = player:GetMouse()

local runService = game:GetService("RunService")

local mousePos = userInputService:GetMouseLocation()

local mouseRay = workspace.CurrentCamera:ViewportPointToRay(mousePos.X, mousePos.Y)
mouseRay = workspace:Raycast(mouseRay.Origin, mouseRay.Direction * 1000)

runService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
	if mouseRay then
		print("Object/terrain hit:", mouseRay.Instance:GetFullName())
		print("Hit position:", mouseRay.Position)
		print("Surface normal at the point of intersection:", mouseRay.Normal)
		print("Material hit:", mouseRay.Material.Name)
	else
		print("Nothing was hit!")
	end	
end)

Any help with this is appreciated,
Thanks, MBroNetwork.

#2

I’ve fixed it, turns out I was being stupid and should’ve just used “Mouse.UnitRay” instead of the camera and UIS mouse position.

#3

You were only creating and casting the ray once (when the script first executes). The “.RenderStepped” event was just printing the results of that raycast every frame.

#4

I figured it out after I made the post that I was being an idiot and didn’t call the ray more than once and also used workspace.CurrentCamera:ViewportPointToRay instead of Mouse.UnitRay