Unit selection outside of unit gameobject

Questions & Answers
1

I have a GameController script which I am using to manage most of my game interactions. I want to be able to click and select units on the scene and I was wondering what the best way to do this is without listening for the mouse event on the unit game object.

Since I also want to be able to click terrain and other objects in the scene, how would I go about getting the 'type' of object clicked? I am currently using the following code:

if(Input.GetButtonDown("Fire1")){   
            Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
            RaycastHit hit;
            if(Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 1000F)){

            }
        }

But I'm not sure how I'd detect what kind of object was clicked. For example if I clicked a unit, I'd want to run my selectUnit() method, but if I clicked the surface plane, I'd perhaps want to run the moveCameraToPoint() method instead.

2

The RaycastHit struct has several members (e.g. 'transform') from which a reference to the associated game object can be acquired, and once you have a reference to the game object you can get whatever info you need.