Just encountered this. Very annoying.
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This is really disrupting my workflow. I haven’t been able to fix or add new terrain to my game for the past few days because of it. Hope it’s fixed soon.
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I see, all hopes high for them to fix it. A question for you though, how were you able to print the raycast? Is it a script or is it a setting that can be changed?
Lovely,
No baseplate here!
I would really appreciate if this was fixed soon, as though it’s possible to work around, it’s terribly inconvenient.
One strange behavior is that the raycast only fails from certain angles seeming to be a chunk error, and yet it behaves fine with part dragging, avatar collisions etc.
I edited the built in terrain plugin to see if I could find a temporary fix. When I discovered it was a raycasting issue and not related to the terrain plugin I gave up. There’s not much we can do about the internal raycast mechanism failing.
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It also affects draggers for me. The issue seemingly only occurs in edit mode. When in play mode/run mode the issue disappears.
Same here, running the game and opening the terrain editor completely solves the issue. Knowing Roblox though, I could also see this as them half**sing this and only half rolling out this update to edit mode without applying any changes to the run mode. Nonsensical but I know you see it happening too.
Thanks for the report! We’ve filed a ticket to our internal database and we’ll follow up when we have an update for you.
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The Raycast is very inconsistent, I’m trying to use the paint tool and the terrain dragger constantly disappears…
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The terrain tools currently have a Raycasts issue which clips through different type of terrain materials and doesn’t go on the Y-Axis. I’ve currently found a temporary solution which is to change the collision group ID from 0 to 1 via the terrain properties tab. Surprisingly this Raycast issue fixes itself. I hope this solves your situation temporally until there is a public fix for the bug. 
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What an interesting workaround. I’ll add it to the main post so it gets more exposure. Hopefully the underlying issue will be remedied sooner rather than later.
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I have also started to experience this. Only started a few days ago. Terrain tools are basically un-usable now 
Happening in every place I do.
(update: by placing a single brick into workspace, it seemed to solve the issues? super strange… tried it multiple times to replicate this bug/weird thing)
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If that’s so, what’s the difference between collision group 0 and 1? Is there a specific collision that changes? Sorry that I can’t really word it properly
Yeah, same exact thing happening here. I figured out that it works if you make a copy of the game and work on it in a local file personally. But it’s annoying when I’m trying to work on something with other people within my team and unable to do the progress with them.
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There’s probably something wrong in the Raycast detection where it’s ignoring Terrain when set to the “Default” collision group (collision group id = 0), you can actually set it to any of the other 31 collision group ids and it will work fine.
I see. The only issue was that setting the collision group to anything other than 0 in the actual game lags people out. I think that’ll just be a small flaw that I’ll have to deal with for the time being.
Awesome find, however I’d like to add that the solution is not consistent as I’ve ran into the issue even at 1.
An additional workaround is to alternate between 0 and 1 whenever the issue occurs at either of them.
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Fascinating, I have never worked with collision groups ever before to be honest. The issue I ran into with the collision group ID not being 0 is that I fall through thin terrains (terrains that are 2 studs thick), but again, small sacrifice that I’d have to make.
Just as a side question, what do you think caused this issue? Is it a ROBLOX internal bug that popped up randomly out of nowhere, or is it an update that’s made by them in release 456?
It’s hard to say what changes are made internally each update. Of course the update log shares the most useful and relevant data to developers, but many more changes happen behind the scenes. My guess is that either the Terrain Instance had some collision code updated that can cause it to malfunction in certain circumstances, or that the Raycast function was changed and now can sometimes fail to detect Terrain under various circumstances. The change(s) that cause the bug went live in 465, but if the studio team cannot recreate the issue in-house then it is hard to figure out the cause of the bug and therefore difficult to fix it.
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having this issue to, if i raycast from top to bottom on a part the position of the part on Y Axis clips through the terrain as if its being ignored at first, then gets the terrain position, seems to behave different based on material, rock is the material clipping with raycast for me, grass works perfectly fine