Why is the camera.screenpointtoray off?

Questions & Answers
1

There arent any errors that prevent me from playing, and it seems to work, but the ray is really off. I have found that I have to move the camera 90 degrees to the right for it to allow me to pick it up. Any suggestions?

#pragma strict

function Start () {

}
var guiray : GUIText;
var flashlight : GameObject;
var flashlightdesk : GameObject;
function Update () {
      var hit : RaycastHit;
var ray = camera.ScreenPointToRay (Vector3(200,200,0));
     Debug.DrawRay (ray.origin, ray.direction * 10, Color.yellow);
       var fwd = transform.TransformDirection (Vector3.forward);
if (Physics.Raycast(ray, hit, 10)){
     //   print ("There is something in front of the object!");
  //  var fingerCount = 0;
 //   for (var touch : Touch in Input.touches) {
 //       if (touch.phase != TouchPhase.Ended && touch.phase != TouchPhase.Canceled)
   //         fingerCount++;
 //   }
  //      if (fingerCount > 0){
  //      print ("User has " + fingerCount + " finger(s) touching the screen");
 if(hit.collider.gameObject.CompareTag("light")) {
guiray.text = "Pick Up Flashlight"; 
 //   if (Input.touchCount > 0) {
if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1")){
   flashlight.gameObject.active = true;
      //flashlight.gameObject.enabled = true;
   flashlightdesk.gameObject.active = false;
}
}
else {
guiray.text = "";
}
}
}
2

As @Benproductions1 mentioned, please clean up your code before posting it to the list. You are far more likely to get answers if the code is readable. With that said, I pasted your code into a file and made some changes so it would run. When I examined the raycast, it was exactly as I expected. Perhaps you need to take a screen shot of the scene view so that we can see what you are seeing. The one major change I made to the code was to explicitly use Camera.main rather than the camera attached to the game object. Do you have multiple camera in your project? Here is the code I tested:

//var guiray : GUIText;
//var flashlight : GameObject;
//var flashlightdesk : GameObject;

function Update () {
    var hit : RaycastHit;
	var ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay (Vector3(200,200,0));

    Debug.DrawRay (ray.origin, ray.direction * 10, Color.yellow);
    var fwd = transform.TransformDirection (Vector3.forward);
    
	if (Physics.Raycast(ray, hit, 10)){
		if(hit.collider.gameObject.CompareTag("light")) {
			//guiray.text = "Pick Up Flashlight"; 

			if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1")){
			 	//flashlight.gameObject.active = true;

		 		//flashlightdesk.gameObject.active = false;
			}
		}
		else 
		{
			//guiray.text = "";
		}
	}
}