Top down shooting script... Don't know what's going wrong

So I am making a simple top down shooter/battle arena game and I cant get my character to shoot a raycast. Debugging doesn't give me any errors.

Also note that i want the ray to be shot in the direction that my character is facing. it doesnt follow the mouse.

Here is my script. Is there anything here that I am missing?


If i type
[[Debug.LogError ("shoot")]] after shoot () then it gives me that error so i know my key bind is responsive. help would be awesome.

Code (CSharp):

1. using UnityEngine;
2. using System.Collections;
3.  
4. public class weapon : MonoBehaviour {
5.  
6.     public float fireRate = 0;
7.     public float damage = 10;
8.     public LayerMask whatToHit;
9.     public Transform firePoint;
10.  
11.     float timeToFire = 0;
12.  
13.  
14.     // Use this for initialization
15.     void Awake () {
16.         firePoint = transform.FindChild ("FirePoint");
17.         if (firePoint == null) {
18.             Debug.LogError ("No firepoint? WHATT?");
19.         }
20.     }
21.     // Update is called once per frame
22.     void Update () {
23.         if (fireRate == 0) {
24.             if (Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.H))
25.                 Shoot ();
26.             }
27.         {
28.         {
29.             if (Input.GetKey (KeyCode.H) && Time.time > timeToFire) {
30.                     timeToFire = Time.time + 1/fireRate;
31.                     Shoot();
32.             }
33.            }
34.     }
35.     }
36.  
37.     public void Shoot () {
38.         Ray ray = new Ray (firePoint.position, firePoint.forward);
39.         RaycastHit hit;
40.  
41.         float shotDistance = 100;
42.  
43.         if (Physics.Raycast (ray,out hit, shotDistance)) {
44.             shotDistance = hit.distance;
45.  
46.         Debug.DrawRay(ray.origin,ray.direction * shotDistance,Color.red);
47.         }
48.     }
49. }
50.      
51.  

 

How do you know it's not working?
You don't actually have anything happen when the raycast hits something
tip: add a number to your drawRay parameters for a duration, eg
Debug.DrawRay(ray.origin,ray.direction * shotDistance,Color.red, 5f)
And it will draw the ray for 5 seconds (instead of a single frame)

I think you also need to check the number of brackets you've got

 

Well I'm pretty sure it isn't working because I'm not seeing a ray. Isn't that something I should see when I shoot? Regardless whether it hits something?
also I'm pretty new to this.