Get mesh name with mouse click, then change color (and other properties) of mesh

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1

Sorry about the lengthy title.. but that's about the gist of what I'm looking for.

Judging by the 'related questions' thingy that popped up, I may be able to find the mesh color change code from another post.. but I don't see anything about getting a mesh using the mouse pointer.

Any ideas? rifles through more unity docs

2

You could use Monobehaviour.OnMouseEnter and OnMouseExit. The script reference page is here. Also, a good resource for searching through unity-related docs is the Custom Google Search.

3

Based on cjmarsh pointer I came up with the following thought I would post it here in case others came looking for similar.

Note I capture the start color but you could in most cases assume that a mats base color is white I suppose I have a few points where I am using the mat color to tent my meshes so I needed to know what it was before the mouse entered. As to the boolean testing; unnecessary to stack them like that its done for clarity in this case.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class MouseEventHandler : MonoBehaviour {
	
	private Color StartColor;
	public Color MouseOverColor = Color.yellow;
	
	// Use this for initialization
	void Start () 
	{
		if(renderer != null)
			if(renderer.material != null)
				StartColor = renderer.material.color;
	}
	
	// Update is called once per frame
	void Update () {
	
	}
	
	void OnMouseEnter()
	{
		if(renderer != null)
			if(renderer.material != null)
				renderer.material.color = MouseOverColor;
	}
	
	void OnMouseOver () 
	{
    	
	}
	
	void OnMouseExit()
	{
		if(renderer != null)
			if(renderer.material != null)
				renderer.material.color = StartColor;
	}
}