Howdy, all.

I'm making a 3d hockey game for the iPhone, and I'm having a problem with my movement. I want it so that the active player moves to the place last touched. However, after a little while of playing, the z co-ordinate of the hit will wind up somewhere below the screen. I've made it output the screen positions of the touch, and that's not the problem. Any suggestions on how I should approach this problem? gameInfo.touchPoint is just a Vector3 I made for the GUI so that I can see the hit position in the GUI until this is solved. What's going on is that I'll touch a point that has a z of 5, and suddenly it'll think I'm touching at -13, then eventually bring itself back to 5. After this code is where I do my vector subtraction to get the character moving, but it seems like the problem is with the hit itself.

EDIT I added some script to trace out what I'm touching (gameInfo.touchObject = hit.transform.name; and then stuff to draw it through the GUI), and I'm still touching the ice even as this is happening. In another test, I rotated the camera so it was directly overhead, and this continued to happen.

Here's the code in question:

var count : int = iPhoneInput.touchCount;   
if( count == 1 && (state == ControlState.MovingCharacter) )
{
    var touch : iPhoneTouch = iPhoneInput.GetTouch(0);


    if (  touch.phase != iPhoneTouchPhase.Began )
    {
        if(touch.deltaPosition.magnitude > 70)
        {
            moving = false; 
            targetLocation = thisTransform.position;
        }
        else
        {
        var ray = cam.ScreenPointToRay( Vector3( touch.position.x, touch.position.y ) );
        gameInfo.touchPoint = touch.position;
        //Raycast to move the player
        var hit : RaycastHit;
        if( Physics.Raycast(ray, hit) )
        {
            //Check if the user has selected the Ice or another player, then allow movement to that location
            if((hit.transform.gameObject == iceGameObject) || (hit.transform.gameObject == puckGameObject)){
                var touchDist : float = (transform.position - hit.point).magnitude;
                if( touchDist > minimumDistanceToMove )
                {
                    targetLocation = hit.point;
                    gameInfo.hitPoint = targetLocation;
                                            gameInfo.touchObject = hit.transform.name;
                    moving = true;
                }

            }

            else{
                Debug.Log("hit: "+hit.transform.parent.name);
                moving = false;
            }
        }
        }

    }
    else
    {
        moving = false;
        //targetLocation = thisTransform.position;
    }
}