Our Target object is a simple sphere object with the mesh render disabled. We have also created a point light and made it a child of our Target object. Make sure the light is centered, or it will not be very helpful for us.
Look at the following code in the Target.cs file:
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
public class Target : MonoBehaviour {
public Transform targetMarker;
void Update () {
int button = 0;
//Get the point of the hit position when the mouse is being // clicked.
if (Input.GetMouseButtonDown(button)) {
Ray ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
RaycastHit hitInfo;
if (Physics.Raycast(ray.origin, ray.direction, out hitInfo)) {
Vector3 targetPosition = hitInfo.point;
targetMarker.position = targetPosition;
}
}
}
}Attach this script to our Target object, which is what we assign in the inspector to the targetMarker variable. The script detects the mouse...