How to make gameplay ignore clicks on UI Button in Unity3D?

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Here’s how you do it in Unity today:

  1. Naturally you’ll have an EventSystem in the hierarchy – just check that you do. (You get one of those automatically when, for example, you add a Canvas; usually, every scene in an Unity project already has an EventSystem, but just check that you do have one.)

  2. Add a physics raycaster to the camera (that takes one click)

  3. Do this:

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  using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
  public class Gameplay:MonoBehaviour, IPointerDownHandler {
   public void OnPointerDown(PointerEventData eventData) {
    Bingo();
    }
   }

Basically, again basically, that is all there is to it.

Quite simply: that is how you handle touch in Unity. That’s all there is to it.

Add a raycaster, and have that code.

It looks easy and it is easy. However, it can be complicated to do well.

(Footnote: some horrors of doing drags in Unity: Horrors of OnPointerDown versus OnBeginDrag in Unity3D )

Unity’s journey through touch technology has been fascinating:

  1. “Early Unity” … was extremely easy. Utterly useless. Didn’t work at all.

  2. “Current ‘new’ Unity” … Works beautifully. Very easy, but difficult to use in an expert manner.

  3. “Coming future Unity” … Around 2025 they will make it BOTH actually work AND be easy to use. Don’t hold your breath.

(The situation is not unlike Unity’s UI system. At first the UI system was laughable. Now, it is great, but somewhat complex to use in an expert manner. As of 2019, they are about to again totally change it.)

(The networking is the same. At first it was total trash. The “new” networking is/was pretty good, but has some very bad choices. Just recently 2019 they have changed the networking again.)

Handy related tip!

Remember! When you have a full-screen invisible panel which holds some buttons. On the full-screen invisible panel itself, you must turn off raycasting! It’s easy to forget:

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As a historic matter: here is the rough-and-ready quick-fix for “ignoring the UI”, which you used to be able to use in Unity years ago…

if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(0)) { // doesn't really work...
  if (UnityEngine.EventSystems.EventSystem.current.IsPointerOverGameObject())
      return;
  Bingo();
  }

You cannot do this any more, for some years now.

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