Need help selecting a game Object to move it

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Hello, I’m new to Unity and I’m making my first game ever in this engine.

I currently have a 3 dimensional grid of positions for cubes, and they must move 1 position at a time in order to form a path with some faces, similar to a rubiks cube but only with translation, no rotation.

I have implemented a RayCast to select with a click which cube to move (cube movement through keypad (awsd))

but I have made a mistake! I need that once one cube is selected, the player has enough time to move the cube, since right now I have to click and press the keys very fast for it to kinda-work. Is there a way to adapt this code for the game to wait until the player moves the cube and “hold” the selection?

This is the click script I have attached to the camera to select a cube to move

Script: Click

[SerializeField]
    private LayerMask clickableLayer;

    void Start()
    {
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if(Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0))
        {
            RaycastHit rayHit;
             
            if (Physics.Raycast(Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition), out rayHit, Mathf.Infinity, clickableLayer))
            {
                Debug.DrawRay(transform.position, transform.forward, Color.green); print("Hit"); 
                rayHit.collider.GetComponent<block>().moveIt();
            }
        }

And I have another script attached to each cube, with the method that the click calls.

Script: Block

 void Update()
    {
        if (currentlySelected)
        {
            moveIt();
        }
    }

    public void moveIt()
    {

            myRender.material = matSelect;

            while (set != true)
            {
                if (GameObject.Find(x.ToString() + y.ToString() + z.ToString()).GetComponent<cubo>().free == true)
                {
                    transform.position = GameObject.Find(x.ToString() + y.ToString() + z.ToString()).GetComponent<cubo>().transform.position;
                    GameObject.Find(x.ToString() + y.ToString() + z.ToString()).GetComponent<cubo>().free = false;
                    set = true;
                }
                else
                {
                    RandomPos();
                }
            }

            if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W)) // x dimension
            {
                if (GameObject.Find((x + 1).ToString() + y.ToString() + z.ToString()).GetComponent<cubo>().free == true)
                {
                    transform.position = GameObject.Find((x + 1).ToString() + y.ToString() + z.ToString()).GetComponent<cubo>().transform.position;
                    GameObject.Find(x.ToString() + y.ToString() + z.ToString()).GetComponent<cubo>().free = true;
                    GameObject.Find((x + 1).ToString() + y.ToString() + z.ToString()).GetComponent<cubo>().free = false;
                    x++;
                }

           //and same thing with the other dimensions, this is getting kind of long

            }

        myRender.material = matStand;
        currentlySelected = false;
        
    }

    private void RandomPos()
    {
        x = Random.Range(0, 3);
        y = Random.Range(0, 3);
        z = Random.Range(0, 3);
    }
2

All you have to do is change this

rayHit.collider.GetComponent<block>().moveIt();

To this

rayHit.collider.GetComponent<block>().currentlySelected = true;

And make the variable currentlySelected public so the Click script can access it.