My Favorite way to Click on GameObjects

[@Miss-ex1gnt]

Do keep mindful of any objects that may block the raycast! I had a canvas with components that I animated out of my screen, but they kept on blocking the raycast. I added "deactivate raycast target" at the end of the animation and solved the "mystery". Still, I must admit, I have gone bonkers until I finally realized what it was! DX

[@justcore69]

Your comment just saved a lot of my gamejam time. Thank you!

[@Roadtotarget]

Don't forget to add Box Collider component to your objects you want to click

[@sakeb1]

3:47: go to definition, best thing I learned here woah

[@emilyhorton996]

deserves way more views and thumbs ups. thank you so much!

[@prhc]

thanks for the video, when using this technique with UI toolkit in unity version 2021.3.24 i had the problem of not being able to select any game objects, only PanelSettings were being selected. i solved this by setting the picking mode of the root visual element to Ignore in the UI Builder

[@sissond]

I needed this like 11 months ago ;) Might go back and make that functionality more elegant

[@VRwithAndrew]

I'll know for next time! :)

[@zuban1988]

Thank you! BTW, I had a problem with code generted mesh, it did not fire the events until you add collider (MeshCollider in my case), then it works.

[@rd88ify]

Thanks! This resolved my issue. In my case I had to add a Box collider to my 3D game object

[@LetsFacetheMusicandDance]

I had the exact same problem ... wish I saw this comment sooner : )

[@ImKyleConway]

I've set up the script and it works great, however I am trying to use this to inspect items but when I adjusted the main camera's near clipping plane, it no longer worked. Anyone know why?

[@danilocolassoo]

That's a really good Interactable objects approach! Specially combined with UnityEvent

[@VRwithAndrew]

Thank you, and exactly! It's incredibly versatile.

[@ms.awesome]

okay so im using Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked; because my game is in first person but this prevents being able to click on the object like this! Any way to fix it or workaround it?

[@VRwithAndrew]

There's some code in the Event System that prevents events if the cursor is locked if I remember correctly. There isn't an easy workaround, but you may be able to copy the script into a new file and make the necessary edits.

[@adfs774]

This is so much better than using annoying raycasting. Thx so much!!1

[@froggothecommentator8036]

sorry but im having some problem with the clicking system rn. It keeps telling me that im having the error "CS0246:the type of namespace name... could not be found". Could you help me with this please?

[@mast1665]

Are there any more resources on this? I just started my unity journey and cant quite get my head around this system. The Events seem to fire endlessly, not only when (for example) clicking on the GameObject I added this script too... No matter where I move/click the mouse. The script answers always.

[@VRwithAndrew]

Not exactly! However, feel free to join the Discord, and we'll see if we can figure it out.

[@mast1665]

@@VRwithAndrew I had to use a box collider! Today was a learn intensive day. Thank you :)

[@ritori3556]

Hi! Thank you for great tip! However, as a beginner, I suffered a lot in implementing it. Could you please share or show in your tutorial MaterialApplier script :( In trying to make it on my own, I got completely lost

[@VRwithAndrew]

It's just a simple example script and not necessary for the implementation. You can easily just put debug statements instead.

[@smirelesz]

Great video. Elegant solution. Thank you!

[@marcoballan4067]

is there any way of implementig this with right clicks or does it only works with left clicks?

[@VRwithAndrew]

Yeah, you can use the PointerEventData with some code like this. public override void OnPointerClick(PointerEventData eventData) { if (eventData.button == PointerEventData.InputButton.Right) { // Your code } }

[@AgalyAbdyev]

sorry but i have error on MaterialApplier. How to solve ?

[@VRwithAndrew]

That's just an example script. You can have a print statement there instead.

[@DexterCrappell]

@@VRwithAndrew I just started with unity, how would I add the print statement?

[@VRwithAndrew]

@@DexterCrappell Within the click functions, you can write... print("Click"); or print("Hover"); Depending upon what the pointer event is

[@ДосталиЕвский]

Can you please clarify how to select an object using a gamepad controller? I'm currently in the process of setting up my input systems for the gamepad, but I'm unsure of how to accomplish this task. Thank you for your assistance!

[@clamarped]

Great video, however, I would have loved it if you had explained how it would work with different objects with different actions, as I can't really see that function with how you show it in the example sadly.

[@castlecodersltd]

Very helpful, thank you 🙂

[@VRwithAndrew]

Happy to help!

[@ClimFreeFeelRain]

How can I

[@Arsen592_Old]

Strange but I don't have Input System UI Input Module in my EventSystem, and I can't add it

[@VRwithAndrew]

Do you have the Input System Package installed?

[@Arsen592_Old]

@@VRwithAndrew oh I didn't input it, thanks

[@indikaWijesooriya]

This is a great tip Andrew!. Thanks. It's been a while :-) I'd also like to know your take on custom graphic raycasters. Eg: Projecting a UI to a curved object (probably with render texture) and getting the raycast input to convert to a UI input. Mainly in VR

[@VRwithAndrew]

I haven't really created my own raycaster before. But, I'm pretty sure you can! I also have some experience with the Curved UI Asset. Technically, you may be able to use the existing Ray Interactor from XRI, a Custom Event System, and a visual element to bend the UI.

[@martinjacobsen5974]

Yeah sorry. It's a super sweet video and very to the point. But as a beginner I have no idea what I'm looking at what is from unity and what you wrote ahead of time. I can see that it's a super straight forward system once it's set up but I needed the "setting it up from zero" Thanks for the video though.

[@appleseedgames6934]

Thought this would really easy but magically it's not working, followed the tutorial the exact same and followed other issued people have had but it's just simply not returning a debug on click at all

[@appleseedgames6934]

Solution: Cursor.lockState isn't compatible with it. Pretty making this entirely useful except for a handful of cases, don't waste your time with this

[@tahirdevlog2047]

thank you

[@VRwithAndrew]

Happy to help

[@Dan-ed1sk]

This is not really helpful, you don't provide enough info

[@ashwinsuresh1476]

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