Does anybody understand how on pointer click and other such events work?

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Been fooling around with this for a while now, I haven’t been able to figure out how to get these events to trigger quite yet. Documentation is pretty much nonexistant for this, and I haven’t really found anything via search, on the forum or on the internet, and chatgpt is more confused than I am. Just so some sort of explanation is up on the internet, can someone please explain how these events work?

As far as I know, you need a collision shape, a rigidbody, an event trigger component on the clickable prefab, and a 2d physics raycast component on the player camera (in my use case, I am making a 2d game.) Layers are all set right, nothing is blocking the raycast, and it still isn’t triggering. There seems to be some convoluted selection in event trigger component, however I cant find an explanation for this either.

Thanks for your time

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Solved it, in my specific case, it had nothing to do with the event trigger system itself. It was because my camera z was set to 0. I set it to -10 like the default maincamera and everything works as intended.