Raycast not working for no reason

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I have a blood system that uses raycast to detect when a blood drip touches something, then creates a pool of blood where it touches. For some reason it suddenly isnt working, and the ray isnt even being casted, I tried removing the blacklist but it still didnt work. Here is the code:

game:GetService("RunService").Heartbeat:Connect(function()
	local params = RaycastParams.new()
	params.FilterType = Enum.RaycastFilterType.Blacklist
	local t = {script.Parent, script.Parent.Parent}
	params.FilterDescendantsInstances = t
	local ray = workspace:Raycast(script.Parent.Position, Vector3.new(0,-1,0), params)
	if ray then
		print("ray has casted :)")
		if ray.Instance.Anchored == true and ray.Instance.CanCollide == true then
			local s = game.ReplicatedStorage.BloodPuddle:Clone()
			s.Parent = script.Parent.Parent
			s.Color = script.Parent.Color
			s.Position = ray.Position
			script.Parent:Destroy()
		end
	end
end)

This script is inside the blood drips, each one has this script inside of it.

2

Try multiplying the direction by an arbitrary number as the range

3

Like this?

local ray = workspace:Raycast(script.Parent.Position, Vector3.new(0,-1 * 10,0), params)
4

I guess. I wasn’t expecting you to multiply the y axis but it shouldn’t matter because its the only number that isn’t zero

5

I tried that and multiplying the vector3 itself and it did nothing

6

Works just fine for me.

game:GetService('RunService').Heartbeat:Connect(function(dt)
	local result = workspace:Raycast(script.Parent.Position, Vector3.new(0, -1, 0) * 10)
	
	if result then
		script.Parent.Attachment.WorldPosition = result.Position
	end
end)
7

I changed the parent of the bloodDrips to the character they are coming from, and now it works. I had them stored in a folder in workspace but why would that break it, I dont understand.

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