Need Raycast to interact with World Space Canvas UI (788804)

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I am making a co-op game where one of the players needs to interact with computer screens. I have a computer monitor with a World Space Canvas on top of the screen, and I have a sprite on top of that that casts a ray towards the computer screen.

I need a new input module so that the ray can interact with the buttons on the UI, but I am fairly new to Unity and have no idea where to even start. All the tutorials I have looked up include half-baked explanations by YouTubers with extremely thick accents and none of them really explain what they are doing and how I could implement this into my own game. I have been trying to solve this singular problem for months now and I am just about to give up and do something else. ANY help will be extremely appreciated.

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This forum is for UI Toolkit, also known as UIElements, which uses UXML/USS files to construct and style the interface, but it sounds like your issue is for UGUI (Unity UI), which uses GameObjects/Components/Canvasses. I know that “you’re posting in the wrong forum” is probably not going to be a welcome response since you seem frustrated, but there it is =(. They’ll probably have an easier time helping you over there.

There are three UI systems used natively in Unity, so if any of the confusion/frustration is stemming from that, I highly recommend reading up on them, and their differences.

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