Problem moving object with mouse

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1

I am making a game where I have to move orbs around the board to match them up. I have the orbs spawning, but I am having a problem getting the orb to move. I want it to move the orb that is clicked on, while the mouse is held down and once I release the mouse the orb is set where it is at when the mouse button is released. I get no errors when trying to move the orb. I have debug logs in each string of code and the console does show each of the debug logs when I try to move the orb. The orb even gets placed into the GameObject variable I set to store the orb I clicked on. I am doing this in C# so help in that would be appreciated. Here is my code if anyone can help me figure out why the orbs do not move.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class orbScript : MonoBehaviour {

	Vector3 mouseLoc;
	Vector3 moveLoc;
	Vector3 moveObj;
	public GameObject captureOrb;

	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () {
	

	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {

		//move orb by dragging mouse
		if(Input.GetButtonDown ("Fire1")) {
			Debug.Log ("Mouse clicked");
			Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay (Input.mousePosition);
			RaycastHit hit;
			Debug.Log ("Raycast sent out");

			if (Physics.Raycast (ray, out hit, Mathf.Infinity)) {
				//capture what orb was clicked on
				captureOrb = hit.collider.gameObject;
				Debug.Log ("orb selected");
				// assign mouse position property of input to mouse location variable
				mouseLoc = Input.mousePosition;
				Debug.Log ("mouse position assigned");
				// set z position in mouse location before conversion
				mouseLoc.z = -8.9f;
				Debug.Log ("z position of mouse locked");
				// convert screen space location of mouse to world space
				moveLoc = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint (mouseLoc);
				Debug.Log ("converted mouse location to world space");
				//convert orb position to move
				moveObj = captureOrb.GetComponent<Transform>().position;
				Debug.Log ("orb position converted to move");
				// move orb to mouse location in world space
				moveObj = moveLoc;
				Debug.Log ("moved orb");
			}
		}
	
	}


}
2

This will needs some tweak since if you move the mouse too quickly it loses the object.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class test2 : MonoBehaviour {

	public GameObject captureOrb;

	void Update () {
		
		//move orb by dragging mouse
		if(Input.GetButton ("Fire1")) {
			Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay (Input.mousePosition);
			RaycastHit hit;
			
			if (Physics.Raycast(ray,out hit)) {
				captureOrb = hit.collider.gameObject;
				Vector3 newPosition = new Vector3(
					Input.mousePosition.x, 
					Input.mousePosition.y, 
					Camera.main.transform.position.z
					);
				captureOrb.transform.position = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(newPosition);
			}
		}
	}
}