How to get the hit position of Raycast Results?

[ahmingiscool (MEHs)]

Hi there!
I created a simple gun script where both a Raycast and bullet trail will fire according to the LookVector of the gun’s barrel. My goal is to know create bullet HIT effects, which requires me to get the position of the Raycast Results, I tried using RaycastResults.Position…but it doesnt work. Any solutions?

tool.Activated:Connect(function()
	if debounce == false and ammo > 0 and Reloading == false then 
		debounce = true
		game.Workspace.Sound.Gunshot:Play()
		ammo -=1 
		
		
		
	  --=======Bullet Effects=======================	

		
		local Point = tool.Handle.Point
		local PointLookVector  = Point.CFrame.LookVector
		
		
		local Point = script.Parent.Handle.Point

		local function BulletRay()
			local midpoint = Point.Position + PointLookVector * 500/2

			local part = Instance.new("Part")
			part.Parent = workspace
			part.Anchored = true
			part.CFrame = CFrame.new(midpoint, Point.Position)
			part.Size = Vector3.new(0.1, 0.1, (PointLookVector * 500).magnitude)

			part.Material = Enum.Material.Neon
			part.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Gold")
			part.CanCollide = false

			wait(0.05)
			part:Destroy()
			return part

		end

		BulletRay()
		

		--=======Damage RemoteEvent=======================	


		local RaycastParams = RaycastParams.new()
		RaycastParams.FilterDescendantsInstances = {tool.Parent}
		RaycastParams.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Exclude


		local Point = tool.Handle.Point
		local doDmgRE = tool:WaitForChild("DoDamage")

		local RaycastResult = workspace:Raycast(Point.Position, PointLookVector * 100, RaycastParams)



		if RaycastResult then 
			local RaycastInstance = RaycastResult.Instance
			local Findmodel = RaycastInstance:FindFirstAncestorOfClass("Model")

			if Findmodel then

				local FindPlayerHumanoid = Findmodel

				if FindPlayerHumanoid:FindFirstChild("Humanoid") then
					local targetPlayer = FindPlayerHumanoid
					local dmgHumanoid = 100
					doDmgRE:FireServer(targetPlayer, dmgHumanoid)
				end
			end

		else end


		
		
		
		task.wait(0.01)
		Player.PlayerGui["Ammo GUI"].Frame.TextLabel.Text =  "Ammo: "..ammo.."/"..maxammo
		debounce = false
		
	elseif ammo <= 0 then 
		return 
		
	end

end)

[TaxFraudBruh]

RaycastResult.Position returns the Vector3 position of where the ray hit.

[ahmingiscool (MEHs)]

yes I know but when I tried to replace all PointLookVector with RaycastResult.Position…it just offsets the ray completely. PointLookVector is basically RaycastResult.

local function BulletRay()
			local midpoint = Point.Position + RaycastResult.Position * 500/2

			local part = Instance.new("Part")
			part.Parent = workspace
			part.Anchored = true
			part.CFrame = CFrame.new(midpoint, Point.Position)
			part.Size = Vector3.new(0.1, 0.1, (RaycastResult.Position * 500).magnitude)

			part.Material = Enum.Material.Neon
			part.BrickColor = BrickColor.new("Gold")
			part.CanCollide = false

			wait(0.05)
			part:Destroy()
			return part

		end

		BulletRay()

Error: attempt to index nil with ‘Position’

[TaxFraudBruh]

I’m confused… what exactly is the problem? Is it just the tracer? Is it the raycast direction?

[ahmingiscool (MEHs)]

The problem is the tracer effect. I want to make it so the effect ends at whatever the ray hit.

[TaxFraudBruh]

Ok, sweet.
The way I do this is like this:

local Debris = game:GetService("Debris")

-- Tracer settings
local TracerSize = 0.25
local TracerColour = BrickColor.new("Gold")
local TracerMaterial = Enum.Material.Neon

function BulletRay()
   local RayDistance = RayResult.Distance
   local RayPosition = RayResult.Position

   -- Create new part, set size and CFrame
   local Tracer = Instance.new("Part")
   Tracer.Size = Vector3.new(TracerSize, TracerSize, RayDistance)
   -- The tracer is positioned to start and end at the origin of the raycast and where it hit.
   -- The second CFrame is because otherwise the middle of the tracer part will be somewhere we don't want
   -- And you're gonna want to set 'RayOrigin' to whatever your gun muzzle is set as
   Tracer.CFrame = CFrame.new(RayOrigin, RayPosition) * CFrame.new(0, 0, -RayDistance / 2)

   Tracer.Material = TracerMaterial
   Tracer.BrickColor = TracerColour

   Tracer.Anchored = true
   Tracer.CanCollide = false

   Tracer.Parent = workspace

   Debris:AddItem(Tracer, 0.05)
end

[neOfficialProTv (Andrei)]

local function CreateTracer(startPosition, endPosition)
    local tracer = Instance.new("Part") --put your part from workspace in here
    tracer.Anchored = true
    tracer.CanCollide = false
    tracer.Size = Vector3.new(0.1, 0.1, (startPosition - endPosition).Magnitude)
    tracer.CFrame = CFrame.new(startPosition, endPosition) * CFrame.new(0, 0, -tracer.Size.Z / 2)
    tracer.Parent = workspace
    
    -- Destroy the tracer after a certain duration
    wait(0.1)
    tracer:Destroy()
end

-- Inside your tool.Activated event handler
local RaycastResult = workspace:Raycast(Point.Position, PointLookVector * 100, RaycastParams)

if RaycastResult then 
    local hitPosition = RaycastResult.Position
    CreateTracer(Point.Position, hitPosition)
    
    -- Rest of your code
    -- ...
end```

[ahmingiscool (MEHs)]

Tracer works but there seem to be an error whenever the ray is fired towards nothing as in neither a part or model. This is the error message: attempt to index nil with ‘Distance’

How should I attempt to fix this as the distance towards nothing will not produce a Raycast Result…

[TaxFraudBruh]

The solution for that is to calculate the position that it would be. To do this, you just need to take the ray direction, divide it by 4 and add that to the origin position.

Diving specifically by 4 is more of an arbitrary number as the higher number you divide with, the closer the position of the tracer is. Diving by 4 may put the tracer may be only 700 studs away, but dividing by 2 will place it nearly 2k studs away. Just remember you don’t want to exceed 2048 studs so I’d recommend keeping the number between 5 and 3.

-- If the RayResult returned null (meaning it hit nothing such as the skybox), replace RayPosition
if not RayResult then
		
	-- The RayDirection variable will be whatever your variable for the ray direction is!
	-- Divide the RayDirection by 4 then add the ray origin Vector3 to the calculated position
	local CalculatedPosition = RayDirection / 4
	RayPosition = RayOrigin + CalculatedPosition

end

Updated code from my last reply:

local Debris = game:GetService("Debris")

-- Tracer settings
local TracerSize = 0.25
local TracerColour = BrickColor.new("Gold")
local TracerMaterial = Enum.Material.Neon

function BulletRay()
	local RayDistance = RayResult.Distance
	local RayPosition = RayResult.Position
	
	-- If the RayResult returned null (meaning it hit nothing such as the skybox), replace RayPosition
	if not RayResult then
		
		-- The RayDirection variable will be whatever your variable for the ray direction is!
		-- Divide the RayDirection by 4 then add the ray origin Vector3 to the calculated position
		local CalculatedPosition = RayDirection / 4
		RayPosition = RayOrigin + CalculatedPosition

	end

	-- Create new part, set size and CFrame
	local Tracer = Instance.new("Part")
	Tracer.Size = Vector3.new(TracerSize, TracerSize, RayDistance)
	-- The tracer is positioned to start and end at the origin of the raycast and where it hit.
	-- The second CFrame is because otherwise the middle of the tracer part will be somewhere we don't want
	-- And you're gonna want to set 'RayOrigin' to whatever your gun muzzle is set as
	Tracer.CFrame = CFrame.new(RayOrigin, RayPosition) * CFrame.new(0, 0, -RayDistance / 2)

	Tracer.Material = TracerMaterial
	Tracer.BrickColor = TracerColour

	Tracer.Anchored = true
	Tracer.CanCollide = false

	Tracer.Parent = workspace

	Debris:AddItem(Tracer, 0.05)
end