Raycast not hitting a collider

Question

I have the following simple raycast from a capsule on a cube:

bool hit = Physics.Raycast
(transform.position, Vector3.down,
jumpSettings.groundJumpDistanceCheck, 
jumpSettings.layerMask);

print(hit);

When my layerMask is 8 (terrain), I have set my layer on my cube and my groundJumpDistanceCheck is 2. Then my hit is false.

When my groundJumpDistanceCheck is set to Infinity. Then my hit is still false.

However when I remove the distance parameter:

bool hit = Physics.Raycast
(transform.position, Vector3.down,
/* jumpSettings.groundJumpDistanceCheck, */ 
jumpSettings.layerMask);

print(hit);

Then hit returns true. This is odd for me, as far as I know when you exclude the distance parameter it's supposed to be Infinity by default. But when I explicitly give Infinity as the distance, it returns false.

I have also used the following code in an attempt to debug my issue, using the desired distance 2f

Debug.DrawRay(transform.position,
Vector3.down * jumpSettings.groundJumpDistanceCheck, Color.red, 60f);

As you can see, the ray does intercept the cube.

I need the reycast to return true with a distance of 2f.

Answer 1

So after doing some more research. I realized that the layermask param was excluding layers. This is what it should be:

bool hit = Physics.Raycast
(transform.position, Vector3.down,
jumpSettings.groundJumpDistanceCheck, 
1 << jumpSettings.layerMask);

print(hit);