Can't disable raycasting on TMP SubMesh?

I have a TMP Object that is marked Raycast Target? false -- however, when it creates a submesh (if I have italic and regular text, for example), that submesh still receives raycasts.

Unity 2018.1.6f1
TMP 1.0.55.56.0b11

 

The Raycast Target should inherit the settings of the parent text object.

I'll try to double check the behavior on my end later today or tomorrow.

 

Any luck?

 

hey there! Just wanted to bump this!

 

This is still a thing, for sure.

 

That should be addressed in the next release which is almost ready.

 

Is there a code snippet I could get that I can just make in my local copy? This is impacting my players in a fairly substantial way. I was trying to figure out how to fix it myself, but I imagine it's only a line or two of code from what I've seen thus far.

Thanks!

 

Note to anyone else looking for this:

https://docs.unity3d.com/2019.1/Documentation/ScriptReference/UI.Graphic-raycastTarget.html

The answer is in the fact that TMP_SubMeshUI inherits from MaskableGraphic.

If you want NONE of your submeshes to ever react to mouse input (as was the case in my case), then you can simply say:

subMesh.raycastTarget = false;

right after:

TMP_SubMeshUI subMesh = go.AddComponent<TMP_SubMeshUI>();

inside:

public static TMP_SubMeshUI AddSubTextObject(TextMeshProUGUI textComponent, MaterialReference materialReference)

That gets the job done, anyhow.

 

Thanks for the post, it will do until Unity will add the toggle.

 

No problem!

 

Hi! if anyone is still being bothered by this, if you add this line to the AddSubTextObject function in the TMP_SubMeshUI.cs after the component is created, it will work properly.

subMesh.raycastTarget = textComponent.raycastTarget;

Anyways I added the modified script to only replace it in the TextMesh Pro Folder in the packages folder, it is located in:
Packages->TextMeshPro->Scripts->Runtime

 

This issue should have been resolved in the latest release of the TMP package. See the following entry in the ChangeLog

- Added synchronization of the RaycastTarget property of the parent &lt;TextMeshProUGUI&gt; with potential child sub text objects. Case #1240784

Please be sure to use the latest release of the TMP package.

 

If you're experiencing your TMP blocking other raycasts. Add a canvas component to the TMP you want to disable raycasting on and that will bring it to a new sub canvas that doesn't have the Graphic Raycaster component. Hope this helps you as it did for me

 

Just go to ExtraSettings in your TextMeshPro-Text component and uncheck RaycastTarget