Is there any way to get the old way of selecting objects working in Unity?
It used to be that clicking an object in scene view would select the “top most” ui object for me and also highlight it in the hierarchy so I could edit it easily. Neither of these things appear true anymore and its just making working in unity impossible.
(Whether an object i click on in the scene view highlights in hierarchy seems sporadic now)
Edit, this video is showing 10 clicks on the horse icon towards the bottom right of the screen and never actually being able to select it.
I have issues with this as well but I’ve been making an attempt to select UI elements via the Hierarchy instead of the Scene-- which isn’t always ideal.
I thought i was going crazy for a bit, behaviour pre unity 2021 seemed logical to me where i’d click the UI element and it would select it in hierarchy and it would select the top-most element. Selecting things from hierarchy is what i do for now but its just extremely slow and not going to be a long term answer. Is my second post trying to ask whats going on here. I was thinking that it was potentially something in my project settings that was messed up but completing erasing unity and doing a fresh install didnt get me anywhere. Hoping to hear of a way to change this behaviour back to how it was in Unity 2020
Shall keep posting here till I hear from anyone as to why object selection in unity UI is raycasted in reverse / at random rather than ray cast from mouse down, or any advice as to why this behaviour is preferable. We’re finding it impossible to do any UI work in its current state and having to revert to a version of the game engine from years ago to do any work.
To try to convince mysel im not crazy, i downgraded everything to the last version of the game engine that actually worked for me (2020.1.17f1), compare the ease of object selection in scene view in this video:
This is a showstopper for us.
I reported this ~6 months ago, and they fixed it in 2022.2 (which wasn’t available at time, but I guess now is), and it looks like they’re still working to backport it to 2020.3/2021.3
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