Raycasthit results only 0

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Hello,

I was looking for this problem in other threads but yould not identify anything similar.
What I want to do is the following: On pressing button “p” a plane shall appear on the surface of my terrain. I can choose in advance the x and z value; the y value shall be estimated with a raycast.
The code for the raycast is standard:

//---------------------------------------------------------------------
    // start and end of an orthographic ray that hits the terrain and tells us the elevation
    private static float rayTestTerrain(float xPos, float zPos, RaycastHit rayYPosHit)
    {
        Vector3 startRayPoint = new Vector3( xPos, 1000f, zPos );

        Ray orthoTestRay = new Ray( startRayPoint, Vector3.down );
        //Debug.DrawLine( startRayPoint, endRayPoint, Color.red, 10, false );

        RaycastHit lala = new RaycastHit();

        // actual ray test
        Physics.Raycast( orthoTestRay, out lala, Mathf.Infinity, U3D_ModelManager.m_TerrainLayerMask );

        return lala.point.y;
    }

The result, though, is always 0:

(139.9, 0.0, 171.6)
UnityEngine.Debug:Log(Object)

Do you have any hints for me where to trace the error? The surface is a terrain, but I also created a simple plain on top to see if it gets a hit there, but negative…

Cheers!

2

Instead of using raycast, you can use this:

Terrain.SampleHeight

But remember, this is only for terrains.