Box Collider Question

Unity Engine
1

Hey all.

I’m creating a small drag-and-drop style item creation in my game. You click on the item in the menu, and the item follows the mouse until you click again, where it gets placed.

I make the object follow the mouse in the update function:

Vector3 mousePosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(Input.mousePosition.x, Input.mousePosition.y, Input.mousePosition.z));
transform.position = new Vector3(mousePosition.x, mousePosition.y, -2.0f);

My problem is that I don’t want the object that has not been placed yet to affect other things on the screen. So I want to disable the box collider until it is placed. But when I do this, the object no longer follows the mouse around. It’s as if updating the position depends on the box collider, and I don’t understand why.

Here’s how I disable and enable the box collider:

DISABLE:
void Start()
{
this.gameObject.collider.active = false;
}

ENABLE"
void OnMouseOver()
{
        if (Input.GetMouseButton(0)  (!mouseDownFlag))
        {
            mouseDownFlag = true;
            placed = true;
            creator = GameObject.Find("Object Creator");
            creator.GetComponent<CreateObjects>().ChangeRootColor(index);
            this.gameObject.collider.active = true;
        }
}

Any ideas on why an inactive collider would make the object not follow the mouse?

2

I resolved the issue by setting the z value of the localScale of the object to 0.0 when it gets created, and then adjusting it to the correct value when it gets placed.