Change UI button state to "pressed" via script

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1

Good evening,

I have some UI buttons, but as my game is for Android, I’m having some problems with changing the state of the button, I have one sprite for the button and one for it when pressed. The problem is, I can’t change the state of the button. Bellow is the script I’m using the check if the button was touched, and I’m sending a message to it. How do I change the state of this button so it can show the right sprite (Pressed)?

void Update () {
		if (Input.touchCount > 0 && Input.GetTouch (0).phase == TouchPhase.Began) {
			RaycastHit2D buttonHit;
			buttonHit = Physics2D.Raycast(this.transform.position, Input.touches[0].position);
			if (buttonHit)
			{
				objectHit = buttonHit.transform.gameObject;
				if (objectHit.name == "Button_Play")
				{
					objectHit.SendMessage("LoadScene",1,SendMessageOptions.DontRequireReceiver);
				}
			}
		}
	
	}
2

are you using Unity UI buttons? if not, why not? if yes, check this out, no code needed. Just create a UI button change transition and assign sprite, done

Sprite Swap Option on Button

3

Using Event System instead.