Making raycast go past mouse

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I’m trying to make a top-down shooter and working on the framework for the weapon system, but I ran into a problem I forgot how to fix and can’t find on DevForum. I want to make a raycast go to the mouse, but I want it to go past it, and I can’t figure out how to do that from a top-down perspective. I’m also unable to use the character’s root part because I want it to be accurate.
What I want:

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What I get:

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Code:

userinputservice.InputBegan:Connect(function(input)
	if input.UserInputType == Enum.UserInputType.MouseButton1 then
		local function raycast(origin,point)
			local distance = (origin - point).Magnitude
			local p = Instance.new("Part")
			p.Anchored = true
			p.CanCollide = false
			p.Size = Vector3.new(0.1, 0.1, distance)
			p.CFrame = CFrame.lookAt(origin, point)*CFrame.new(0, 0, -distance/2)
			p.Parent = game.Workspace
		end
		local root = character.HumanoidRootPart
		local origin = root.Position + root.CFrame.LookVector * 2
		local point = Vector3.new(mouse.Hit.X, origin.Y, mouse.Hit.Z)
		local raycastResult = workspace:Raycast(origin, point)
		if raycastResult then
			raycast(origin,raycastResult.Position)
		else
			raycast(origin,point)
		end
	end
end)

I’m lost and don’t know how to achieve this and any help would be appreciated, thanks.

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It looks like you are firing the ray at the position the mouse is hitting the baseplate.
Instead of firing the ray to that Position, fire it to the X and Y of that Position, but set the Z to the same height as the players RootPart. That way it won’t fire from the Player down to the baseplate.

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Its not hitting the ground its firing towards the mouse position at the same y position as the root so its making it and not hitting the ground bht its only going to where the mouse is and i want it to go past the mouse

4

Try getting the direction of the mouse relative to the player

local dir = (point - origin).Unit
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