Reacting to Mouse animation...

Questions & Answers
1

I’m trying to make animations that react to the player’s mouse. I looked all over the unity reference site and nothing works. What am I missing?

function Update () {
}

function OnMouseEnter () {
	animation.Play("Element 1");
	yield WaitForSeconds (1);
	animation.Play("Element 0");
}

function OnMouseDown () {
	animation.Play("Element 2", PlayMode.StopAll);
}
2

First thing to check is wether the functions are called at all, e.g. using Debug.Log().

If they are not:

  • Check that you have a collider on your object, otherwise OnMouseEnter()/OnMouseDown()/… will not be called:

OnMouseEnter is called when the mouse entered the GUIElement or Collider.

  • Beware that they are not called for objects on the “Ignore Raycast” layer.
3

All 3D interaction between gameobjects and the mouse needs be done through COLLIDERS. Colliders are responsible of intercepting events between gameobjects and the world, basically.

1 add a collider of any type to your gameobject

2 add the following code in a c# script that you attach to the gameobject

void OnMouseDown() {
	Debug.Log("AHAHA stop clicking me!");
}

3 in play mode click over the gameobject