Yet Another GUI vs. Raycasting question.

Questions & Answers
1

I am moving forward with my dungeon/housing creation system and have come across another issue, I have read a few ways on here regarding making gui ignore raycast. The method I was attempting was somewhat as follows:

if (Event.current != null && Event.current.isMouse)
{
    ignoringRaycast = true;
    Debug.Log("Ignoring Raycast - true");
}
else {
    ignoringRaycast = false;
    //Debug.Log("Ignoring Raycast - false");
}

It worked great for my background gui elements, but buttons would still fire through on clicking them. I have read about using a GUI Texture behind it but have yet to see any examples. Also had no like trying the tooltip method - I was hoping to be pointed in the right direction or hopefully someone has a working project that tackles this?

I can post the code if necessary although I removed everything that had to utilize this, it is quite large and tangles between many different scripts so will be quite a bit of work just to make readable.

2

You can define two rectangles (one for each menu) in pixel coordinates, and disable raycasting when the mouse pointer is inside any of these rectangles:

var rMenu1 = Rect(20,200,180,400);
var rMenu2 = Rect(100,80,500,170);

function Update(){
  ...
  var mousePos = Input.mousePosition;
  ignoringRaycast = rMenu1.Contains(mousePos) || rMenu2.Contains(mousePos);
  ...

I’m assuming that ignoringRaycast == true disables raycasting.

If you’re using GUI.Box to draw the menus, rMenu1 and rMenu2 will be the same rects that define the vertical and horizontal menus - or you can even define bigger rects, so raycasting will be disabled when the mouse gets near to the menus.

3

Your solution works, but for if you are using a GUILayout window (like one that can be dragged around) youll find that the y position is wrong. heres my quick fix if someone is still struggling

var windowRect = new Rect(0,0,200,200);
mousePos.x = Input.mousePosition.x;
mousePos.y = Screen.height - Input.mousePosition.y;
ignoreRaycast = windowRect.Contains(mousePos);