Can UI elements block physics raycast?

Hi there,
I want to listen for touch end on mobile device in order to do a raycast at a certain distance and check some objects interaction. I have a virtual joystick as well and the problem now is that when the user leave the joystick a raycast is triggered by TouchPhase.Ended but I don't want that because it's not a touch meant for interaction.

I tried to use:

if(Input.touchCount > 0 && Input.GetTouch(0).phase == TouchPhase.Ended){
if(EventSystemManager.currentSystem.IsPointerOverGameObject(Input.GetTouch(0).fingerId){
...do nothing
}


but it doesn't work. I tried adding CanvasGroups to my joysticks (I have 2) that block raycast but that is not related to physics raycast. Does someone know a good solution for that?

Thanks

 

Drop physics.raycast in favour of a physics raycaster.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EVZiv7DLU6E

 

Hey, thanks for your reply. I saw that video already, the problem with that is that I need to have control over the distance of the ray as well. Also I prefer to raycast against a specific layer rather than having to make sure that each intractable object has a script attached that inherits the clickable interface.
Is there really no way to do it with the standard physics raycast?

 

If you are desperate you could add a regular physics collider to the UI element. Don't know how well it will work.

 

In the end I implemented the IPointerClickHandler interface. That said, is there a way to prevent a player to tap on an object from a great distance by limiting the Physics Raycaster ray distance?

 

Check the distance inside of the IPointerClick method?