Clicking on an object

Unity Engine
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Hey Friends,

I am brand new to the Unity engine and really loving it. I make websites for companies and am using the Unity web player to allow surfers to navigate a 3D menu of sorts.

The player is inserted in to an HTML page with two iFrames on the same page. I would like to have a surfer “click on” some element in the 3D world and have one of those frames update.

Yet, I am not able to find a ‘click on object’ script approach. Has anyone done this? Or might know where in the documentation I might find samples if it can be done? If not, I am thinking this might be done through collision with objects as well. But, I need some help in learning how Unity initiates actions like:

Application.OpenURL (“http://unity3d.com/”);

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Very simple. Normally when you make a new script it starts like so…

function Update () {
      // stuff happens
}

The “Update” function is called every update, so anything you put in such a script would occur at every screen refresh. If you instead want the code to only trigger on a mouse click you’d use…

function OnMouseUp () {
      // stuff happens
}

Here’s a link to a list of default functions you may find useful. Unity - Scripting API: MonoBehaviour

3

Excellent. I will read up on all these scripts and see what serves the purpose.

I must say, as a new user of this engine, I am highly impressed! Not only by the tool itself. But, by the community around it. You are all so helpful and professional. I am going to buy my license this week. I want to be a part of this community :slight_smile:

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It’s a superb investment and as you’ve seen to community here is simply top notch in every aspect. Welcome aboard. (Great name for the site btw!)