Building an XY pad, having various problems with mouse position and sorting layers

Hi so Im making an XY pad - basically a rectangle the player can click and drag a "point" (this is represented by a circle) around on, to effect two parameters at once (one controlled by X axis and one controlled by Y axis). I'm having various issues with this.

The first is this:
I am basically checking the mouse position when dragging on the rectangle. Then in a seperate script on the circle, I am getting that position and setting the position of the circle equal to it. But even though I have them all as public variables and they all appear to be the same - there seems to be some crazy offset that's making the circle not follow the mouse closely at all. I have no idea what it is

Second:
Sorting Layers dont seem to be working. As I'm not working with sprites, Im using a script to access the renderer and set the sorting layer manually, but it doesn't seem to be working at all. I have created both sorting layers and set up "Shapes" to be further down the list than "background" .. there are also order numbers set by the script and I have given the circle a higher number for the order as well as a later sorting layer and it still places it behind the rectangle.

Please find attached at this link:

a video of my project and below I have also attached pictures of all my scripts. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

 

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all the scripts are attached right there in the images

 

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This is the for checking mouse position when dragging inside the rectangle:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2.  
3. public class XyScript : MonoBehaviour
4. {
5.    
6.  
7.     public Vector3 pos;
8.     public Vector3 bottomEdge;
9.     public Vector3 topEdge;
10.     public Vector3 leftEdge;
11.     public Vector3 rightEdge;
12.     public Vector3 boundsExtents;
13.     public Vector3 currentXyPosition;
14.     public bool isDragging = false;
15.  
16.  
17.     void Start()
18.     {
19.         boundsExtents = GetComponent<Renderer>().bounds.extents;
20.         pos = GetComponent<Renderer>().transform.localPosition;
21.  
22.         leftEdge = pos + boundsExtents.x * Vector3.left;
23.         rightEdge = pos + boundsExtents.x * Vector3.right;
24.         bottomEdge = pos + boundsExtents.y * Vector3.down;
25.         topEdge = pos + boundsExtents.y * Vector3.up;
26.  
27.  
28.     }
29.  
30.     // Update is called once per frame
31.  
32.     private void OnMouseDrag()
33.     {
34.  
35.         isDragging = true;
36.  
37.         if (isDragging == true)
38.         {
39.             currentXyPosition = Input.mousePosition;
40.             currentXyPosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(currentXyPosition);
41.  
42.             currentXyPosition.z = 5f;
43.  
44.         }
45.  
46.  
47.  
48.     }
49.  
50.  
51.     private void OnMouseUp()
52.     {
53.         isDragging = false;
54.     }
55.  
56. }
57.  

This is the next one for making the position of circle equal to mouse position:

Code (CSharp):

1. public class XyPointer : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     // Start is called before the first frame update
4.     public Vector3 pointerCirclePos;
5.  
6.  
7.     // Update is called once per frame
8.     void Update()
9.     {
10.         pointerCirclePos = GetComponentInParent<XyScript>().currentXyPosition;
11.  
12.  
13.         if (GetComponentInParent<XyScript>().isDragging == true)
14.         {
15.  
16.             this.transform.localPosition = pointerCirclePos;
17.         }
18.    
19.  
20.     }
21.  
22. }
23.  

and this is the one for setting the sorting layers:

Code (CSharp):

1. public class SortingLayerAssignment : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     public string nameOfSortingLayer;
4.     public int orderOfSortingLayer;
5.  
6.  
7.     // Start is called before the first frame update
8.     void Awake()
9.     {
10.  
11.         this.GetComponent<Renderer>().sortingOrder = orderOfSortingLayer;
12.         this.GetComponent<Renderer>().sortingLayerName = nameOfSortingLayer;
13.     }
14.  
15. }
16.  

 

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ok sir

 

Ah ok, this could be one of the issues.. so I should just use transform.position ?

Also, any ideas on the sorting layers?

Thanks a lot for your help, really appreciate it. Total noob to C# and unity

 

yeah just tested there and replacing localposition with position has made it work. Just need to figure out the sorting layers thing now!

 

Ah okay thanks! I had followed this post: https://forum.unity.com/threads/using-non-sprites-with-the-new-sorting-layers.211822/ thinking that the script from there would sort out the render order.