Check on what object I clicked

Unity Engine
1

Hello.
I was wondering how can I check what’s the name of the object i clicked. I almost finished my game and I want to add a new feature. When the user slicks on a place in the map, a new soldier gets created there. I was wondering how can i check on what the user clicked (i want to restrict user from creating a new soldier on a place with water.)

How can I check this. Thank you.

2

The tag system works pretty good for this feature. Just add it to your conditional statements.

function OnMouseDown() {
if(gameObject.tag == “land”) {
//Do what i want.
}
}

Something like this can help control things.

3

yes, use tags on the objects in the scene and based on those you can decide if you can do an action

4

Thank you for your answers but I already know about OnMouseDown function. I was wondering if I could do this from another object (not terrain)

5

Perhaps you could use the Physics.Raycast method: Unity - Scripting API: Physics.Raycast

Specifically, the last example on that page shows how you can use the current mouse position to cast a ray to see what you hit. The resulting RaycastHit object that’s returned can tell you what object you hit (hit.transform.gameObject.tag) Unity - Scripting API: RaycastHit