Having issues when using RaycastParams

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#1

The project im currently working on requires a tool that does a Raycast to check the current block in front of the player however when I set the filter to blacklist, Its like the ray is completely ignoring the parameters I assigned. So far ive tried assigning just the player in hopes that it will blacklist the players children and the tools children, and ive also added the tool to that list to be more explicit, however the issue still persists.

Shovel.lua

local ContextActionService = game:GetService("ContextActionService")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local Handle = script.Parent.Handle
local Tool = script.Parent

local Player = Players.LocalPlayer
local Camera = workspace.CurrentCamera

local Hits = 0
local startTick = tick()

local active = false
local hitting = false

local ShovelRaycastParams = RaycastParams.new()
ShovelRaycastParams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist
ShovelRaycastParams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {
	Tool,
	Player.Character,
	
}

Tool.Equipped:Connect(function()
	active = true
	
end)

Tool.Unequipped:Connect(function()
	active = false
	
end)

ContextActionService:BindAction("Hit", function(name, state)
	if state == Enum.UserInputState.Begin then
		hitting = true
	elseif state == Enum.UserInputState.End then
		hitting = false
		Hits = 0
	end
end, false, Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1)

RunService.RenderStepped:Connect(function()
	local HitResult = workspace:Raycast(Camera.CFrame.Position, Camera.CFrame.LookVector * 7, ShovelRaycastParams)
	if HitResult then
		print(HitResult.Instance.Parent)
	end
	if active  then
		if hitting then
			if tick() - startTick > Handle.HitSpeed.Value then
				
				
				Hits += 1
				
				startTick = tick()
			end
		end
	end
end)
#2

How does the ray ignore the parameters you assigned? Are they not yielding any results? Are they returning parts you have blacklisted?

#3

Try changing camera.CFrame.Position to player.Character.Head.Position. If the camera is zoomed far away from the character, the ray will not hit things in front of the character when you start the ray from the position of the camera.

#4

The raycastparams are supposed to be the new way of creating whitelists and blacklists, so it should be working, but its almost like the ray is ignoring the params

#5

Is it possible that Player.Character doesnt exist yet in this script?

Player.Character would be nil if the script is loaded too early