Touch GUI

Unity Engine
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Hi,

I am wondering if there is a way to tell if a touch does NOT hit a GUI button/joystick. I have tried the inverse, by writing

if (GUI.Button...etc)
     // run GUI code
else
    // run game code

This, quite obviously, will check to see if you are on a GUI button, and if you are not, it’ll run my other code.

The reason I am doing this is because I am creating a 3rd person video game, in which the player selects his target by tapping the enemy. The player deselects by tapping a space on the screen in which nothing is present. (If you’ve ever played WoW, think of how you select and deselect characters.) However, whenever I press the attack button, my target is deselected.

Essentially I am looking for something along the lines of

if (touch !OnAnyGUIElement) 
    // run game code
else
   // run GUI code

Any insight?

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you will have to create a function that knows all rects to check against.

But actually your approach won’t go anywhere anyway, for granted.

UnityGUI (OnGUI) is for menues, but useless for ingame menues
as such I would recommend that you look into another solution like spriteui, guimanager etc

3

I see, thank you very much! I’ll take a look at to those tomorrow.

Just so I know how much time I’ll have to allocate for the new UI in the morning, how steep is the learning curve for these add-ons? Is there good documentation? Would you recommend one over the other?

Thanks!

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They are commonly pretty simple once you understood the basics (its not like buttons are that hard and buttons and 2-3 other things are basically all you will have unless you buy EZ GUI or use GUIX for which you though need to do the editing / building on the desktop editor).
The freely available ones commonly don’t come with docs