Why does my raycast sometimes appear, and other times not?

Unity Engine
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If I set the players fingers to be the transform point of origin it does appear (albeit at the wrong angle). But if I add an empty game object as a child of my player and try to shoot the ray from there, nothing shows. Could it be scaling issue? The model I used has its rig at 100 scale. (I got it online somewhere so not sure how it was exported).

I did try setting the ray length to like 500 but still nothing showed. Also tried setting so it excluded the player via layer cuz I thought it was hitting some collider.

Any ideas?

Edit: I am using Debug.DrawRay

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Raycasts don’t ‘show’ unless you draw them yourself.
Unity - Scripting API: Debug.DrawRay (unity3d.com)

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I did that. And I cant see them unless I fire them from specific point. The fingers of the right hand.

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Are you sure you’re actually calling the code? Is there an if-statement that could be failing anywhere, preventing you from raycasting in the first place?

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Quite positive. Cuz when I place it on the fingers, it does draw the line. When I place it anywhere else, I see no line. I will double check the code. But here is the code so you can see yourself.

https://hatebin.com/hensoqpesn

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The layermask on Physics.Raycast is for which layers to INCLUDE, not exclude.
Could it be hitting the player itself?

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You’re only drawing the ray when it hits something. So presumably it’s not hitting anything when it’s not being drawn.

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You were correct indeed. Taking it out the brackets it showed just fine.

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This was not the case, the problem was I was drawing the ray only if it hit something.