How to control an object after clicking on it?

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1

I have a cannon i want to control (control the angle and shoot it) but not when i start the scene. Only after right clicking on it. I tried it like this:

public class Shoot : MonoBehaviour
{

    private float angle;
    public GameObject Cannon;
    public Text angleText;

    // Update is called once per frame
    public Rigidbody projectile;
    public float horizontalSpeed = 2.0F;

    public void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(1))
        {
            RaycastHit hit;
            Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);

            if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 100, 0))
            {
                ControlCannon();
            }
        }
    }


    public void ControlCannon()
    {
        
                float h = horizontalSpeed * Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y");
                transform.Rotate(h, 0, 0);
                Text();
                if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1"))
                {
                    Rigidbody clone;
                    clone = Instantiate(projectile, GameObject.Find("Firepoint").transform.position, transform.rotation) as Rigidbody;
                    clone.velocity = transform.TransformDirection(Vector3.up * 10);
                }
    }
    

    void Text()
    {
        angle = Cannon.transform.rotation.eulerAngles.x - 270;
        angleText.text = "Angle: " + angle.ToString();
    }
}

But it doesn’t do anything when i click on the cannon. Is there a different way or am i doing something wrong here?

2

Right now ControlCannon is only being called in the one tick you first click on it. If you look at line 21, it is nested within Input.GetMouseButtonDown and only there. What you should do instead is something like this:

public GameObject cannon; //it's good practice to have variables lowercase
//...
public void Update()
     {
         ControlCannon(); //called every tick 
         if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(1))
         {
             RaycastHit hit;
             Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
 
             if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 100, 0))
             {
                 cannon = hit.collider.gameObject; //you assign the cannon when it is clicked
             }
         }
     }
public void ControlCannon()
     {
         
                 float h = horizontalSpeed * Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y");
                 cannon.transform.Rotate(h, 0, 0); //controls the cannon
                 if (Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1"))
                 {
                     Rigidbody clone;
                     clone = Instantiate(projectile, cannon.transform.position, transform.rotation) as Rigidbody;
     //...