Raycast not updating when part moves

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#1

Hey, developers I’ve stumbled upon an issue which I don’t seem to understand and was hoping someone could reach out a solution.

The problem:

When I place a part in studio and script it to produce a ray cast, it works fine. However, if I move that part during testing then it doesn’t detect anything in front of it. When I move the part while not testing then it is able to detect an object in front of it again when I re-test. I’m not quite sure why it doesn’t update when you move it during testing or if I was to make that part move again via another script. Can someone explain to me why this happens, I am sure my code is fine but I’ll still show my code in case I’m causing the issue.

local turret = script.Parent

while wait() do
	local rayCaster = workspace:Raycast(turret.Position, turret.CFrame.LookVector * 50)
	if rayCaster then
		print("Something was hit")
	else
		print("nothing is being hit")
	end
end

Thank you for reading.

#2

Could you have been in the client view in Studio playtesting when you moved it? If so, the change won’t replicate to the server, so it’ll be as though it didn’t move.

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#3

whoops, totally forgot about that LOL!

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