Change Color of Object when NOT looking at it

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Hey so what I’m trying to do is, look at an object, it turns yellow. If I’m not looking at the object, it turns back to red. I get it to yellow fine, but going back to red has me stumped. The ‘else’ statement below does nothing, doesn’t even register a Debug.Log. Not sure what to do. Any ideas would be great, thanks!

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public float rayLength;

public GameObject player;

void Update()
{
	RaycastHit hit;

	Ray ray = new Ray (transform.position, transform.forward);

	Debug.DrawRay (transform.position, transform.forward * rayLength);

	if (Physics.Raycast (ray, out hit, rayLength)) 
	{
		PlatformDummyScript platforms = hit.transform.GetComponent<PlatformDummyScript> ();

		if (platforms != null) 
		{
			if (platforms) 
			{
				platforms.GetComponent<MeshRenderer> ().material.color = Color.yellow;

				if (Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.G)) 
				{
					Vector3 offset = new Vector3 (0, 1, 0);

					player.transform.position = platforms.transform.position + offset;
				}
			} 

			else 
			{
				platforms.GetComponent<MeshRenderer> ().material.color = Color.red;
			}
		} 
	} 

}
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private PlatformDummyScript lastHitPlatform ;

void Update()
{
    RaycastHit hit;
    Ray ray = new Ray (transform.position, transform.forward);
    Debug.DrawRay (transform.position, transform.forward * rayLength);
    if (Physics.Raycast (ray, out hit, rayLength)) 
    {
        PlatformDummyScript platform = hit.transform.GetComponent<PlatformDummyScript> ();
        if (platform != null) 
        {            
            if( lastHitPlatform != null && platform != lastHitPlatform )
                DeselectPlatform( lastHitPlatform ) ;
            
            SelectPlatform( platform ) ;
            
            if (Input.GetKeyDown (KeyCode.G)) 
            {
                Vector3 offset = new Vector3 (0, 1, 0);
                player.transform.position = platform.transform.position + offset;
            }
        } 
    }
    else if( lastHitPlatform != null )
        DeselectPlatform( lastHitPlatform ) ;
}

private void SelectPlatform( PlatformDummyScript platform )
{
    platform.GetComponent<MeshRenderer> ().material.color = Color.yellow;
    lastHitPlatform = platform ;
}

private void DeselectPlatform( PlatformDummyScript platform )
{
    platform.GetComponent<MeshRenderer> ().material.color = Color.red;
    lastHitPlatform = null ;
}