Offseting insantiated object

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1

I am working on a gun script in my game and I am using raycasting currently to shoot. So when I am instantiating the impact prefab, it is putting it right where the raycast hit and I am trying to figure out how to offset the instantiated object so instead of being directly on the object, it hovers a little bit away from the object.

This is a snippet of my code

void Shoot()
    {

        ammo--;
        RaycastHit hit;
        Transform cam = GameObject.FindGameObjectWithTag("MainCamera").transform;

        if (Physics.Raycast(cam.position, cam.forward, out hit, 1000))
        {

             Instantiate(impactPrefab, hit.point, Quaternion.FromToRotation(-transform.forward, hit.normal) * transform.rotation, null);
        }
        

    }

if you can help out, thank you.

2

Replace hit.point with hit.point - hit.normal * distance where distance is the desired distance from the point.