clicking on a mesh in game

Questions & Answers
1

hi I’m fairly new to unity but I was wondering if I have a first person game can you have an event happen when a mesh is clicked on by the player. If this is possible how would I go about doing it?

thanks beforehand all answers appreciated

2

Iggy’s answer isn’t exactly right, because it doesn’t tell you when you’ve clicked on a mesh- it just tells you that the player has clicked… anywhere.

you still need to test for the mouse button, but you need to raycast from the camera where the mouse clicked, and find out what object it hit.

something like this should work (untested, javascript):

if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
{
    var ray : Ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
    if(Physics.Raycast(ray, hit))
        Debug.Log("Mouse Down Hit the following object: " + hit.collider.name);
}