Navmesh & Mouse clicks

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Hello! I got my Navmesh baked, got my player controller and camera to move on mouse clicks. The problem is I have to keep clicking so close to my character for him to register the mouse click and move, he takes like 3 steps. I want to be able to click across the map and him walk over there with me clicking every other spot for him to move forward. its also just a bit clunky, I have to spin the camera around to be able to “click” behind him, and turn him to walk the other way. Im not sure what kind of adjustments need to be made or even what components would need adjusted? Do I mess around with the controller script and try to make the mouse “clickable area” bigger? do I work on my terrains navmesh?

Here’s my player controller script im using.

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.AI;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;

/* Controls the player. Here we chose our “focus” and where to move. */

[RequireComponent(typeof(PlayerMotor))]
public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour {

public delegate void OnFocusChanged(Interactable newFocus);
public OnFocusChanged onFocusChangedCallback;

public Interactable focus;	// Our current focus: Item, Enemy etc.

public LayerMask movementMask;		// The ground
public LayerMask interactionMask;	// Everything we can interact with

PlayerMotor motor;		// Reference to our motor
Camera cam;				// Reference to our camera

// Get references
void Start ()
{
	motor = GetComponent<PlayerMotor>();
	cam = Camera.main;
}

// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {

	if (EventSystem.current.IsPointerOverGameObject())
		return;

	// If we press left mouse
	if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
	{
		// Shoot out a ray
		Ray ray = cam.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
		RaycastHit hit;

		// If we hit
		if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, movementMask))
		{
			motor.MoveToPoint(hit.point);

			SetFocus(null);
		}
	}

	// If we press right mouse
	if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(1))
	{
		// Shoot out a ray
		Ray ray = cam.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
		RaycastHit hit;

		// If we hit
		if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 1000f, interactionMask))
		{
			SetFocus(hit.collider.GetComponent<Interactable>());
		}
	}

}

// Set our focus to a new focus
void SetFocus (Interactable newFocus)
{
	if (onFocusChangedCallback != null)
		onFocusChangedCallback.Invoke(newFocus);

	// If our focus has changed
	if (focus != newFocus && focus != null)
	{
		// Let our previous focus know that it's no longer being focused
		focus.OnDefocused();
	}

	// Set our focus to what we hit
	// If it's not an interactable, simply set it to null
	focus = newFocus;

	if (focus != null)
	{
		// Let our focus know that it's being focused
		focus.OnFocused(transform);
	}

}

}

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Sounds like you need to increase this range, maybe set it to Infinity or a big enough number like 20000.

And regarding your 2nd question about being able to click behind the character without rotating the camera, simply create a mask and feed it to the raycast, the mask will exclude the layer of the player.