Setting material of clicked object

[immortalx]

Is there a more elegant way to do this?

It works OK, but I couldn’t find another way to extract the gameobject from a UI Pointer event.
This flowchart is attached to an empty gameobject and (among other stuff) highlights whatever object is clicked by assigning a different material.

[Gavalakis]

Hey,

There is an included Event that you can use for this, called “Mouse Pick” and found under “Events/Input” subcategory.

The Flow output is called whenever the player clicks the mouse on some collider in the scene (you can also set a LayerMask in the node’s inspector) and the Pick Info output is a RaycastHit type containing the info.

Let me know if that works for you.
Thanks.

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[immortalx]

Thanks a lot, I wasn’t aware of this event!

BTW, i believe i found a bug in Debug.DrawLine and Debug.DrawRay
I couldn’t get them to draw lines/rays in the editor, while doing it through a C# script works fine. There’s a chance I might be doing something wrong, but I thought I’d let you know.

[Gavalakis]

Hey,

You are very welcome.

If you are using a Debug.DrawLine version that takes a color parameter, just make sure that you set the color alpha, which by default is 0 (invisible) when the node is created 🙂

Let me know if that was indeed the case.

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[immortalx]

Gavalakis wrote:

Hey,

You are very welcome.

If you are using a Debug.DrawLine version that takes a color parameter, just make sure that you set the color alpha, which by default is 0 (invisible) when the node is created ?

Let me know if that was indeed the case.

I can’t thank you enough! Yes, that was the case and in fact it was the same reason i couldn’t change group colors too! (I’d never thought a color picker would default to alpha = 0)

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