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OnMouseDown and OnMouseDrag with RayCast
I've been working on a clone similar to fruit slice and I've been having a problem with onMouseDown and onMouseDrag working 100% correctly. Right now if I click and drag on the screen before it touches an object (e.g. the fruit) it will correctly slice as many objects as I want. It's using a RayCast to figure out whether it has touched the object and then it will change the graphic on the object after it has touched. The problem comes in when I begin my slice on the actual object. It'll change the animation of the object that I initallity touched; however, it won't let me continue to 'slice' any of the other objects. The RayCast seems to stop working after the first object is touched directly until I release the mouse and then re-click another object. Then it goes back into the same pattern, if I don't click the object directly first it'll continue to slice, or if I do touch the object directly it'll only allow the first object to be detected.
Here is the onMouseDrag code that I've been using:
RaycastHit hit;
if (Physics.Raycast(Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition), out hit))
{
Transform objecthit = hit.transform;
if (hit.transform.gameObject.tag == "testObject")
{
//Change material
}
}
I've also included a getMouseButtonDown statement in my Update(), since that was the only way I could get it to at least change the material on the initial click of the object. If I didn't add this in nothing would happen if I clicked the object directly:
void Update()
{
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
{
RaycastHit hit;
if (Physics.Raycast(Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition), out hit))
{
Transform objecthit = hit.transform;
if (hit.transform.gameObject.tag == "testObject")
{
//Change Material
}
}
}
}
Is there a way to get the RayCast to continue to detect even if the object is touched directly?
Answer by BinaryCaveman · Aug 25, 2011 at 02:07 AM
Try replacing Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)
with Input.GetMouseButton(0)
.
Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)
returns true only during the first frame when the user *presse*s the left mouse button. However, Input.GetMouseButton(0)
returns true while the left mouse button is being held down. I hope that makes sense.
Good luck with your game! I love Fruit Slice/Fruit Ninja (iOS) too. :)
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