Can't get IPointer Enter/Exit to work on a Sprite with Collider

Hello.

Yesterday I changed from the old input system to the new one. In my game scene, everything works great, and I'm very happy.

But, it's broken my Character Creation Screen.

I used to have two different types of Pointer/Mouse handlers for tooltips.

One for event Data (on UI elements)

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
5.  
6. public class OnHoverMakeActiveUI : MonoBehaviour, IPointerEnterHandler, IPointerExitHandler
7. {
8.     [SerializeField]
9.     public GameObject _gameObjectToMakeActive;
10.  
11.     public void OnPointerEnter(PointerEventData eventData)
12.     {
13.         _gameObjectToMakeActive.SetActive(true);
14.     }
15.     public void OnPointerExit(PointerEventData eventData)
16.     {
17.         _gameObjectToMakeActive.SetActive(false);
18.     }
19. }

And one that used OnMouseEnter() (on things like sprites with a capsule Collider)

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
5. using UnityEngine.InputSystem;
6.  
7. public class OnHoverMakeActive : MonoBehaviour
8. {
9.     [SerializeField]
10.     public GameObject _gameObjectToMakeActive;
11.     public void OnMouseEnter()
12.     {
13.         _gameObjectToMakeActive.SetActive(true);
14.     }
15.     public void OnMouseExit()
16.     {
17.         _gameObjectToMakeActive.SetActive(false);
18.     }
19. }

I ported across to the new Input system, and bam, the second one didn't work. After investigating, I found out this is a common issue, and OnMouseOver doesn't work with the new Input system.

Never fear, I thought. I still have my other script I was using for UI elements, so I'll just do that.
The suggestion Ive seen is to:

1) make sure you have a 2D raycaster on your camera. I do
2) make sure you have a InputSystemUIInputModule on your Event System. I do
3) Collider on your GameObject (I do)

- I already had a lot of these things set up because I had these two types of Hover scripts.

Anyway. Long story short, it isn't working. Anyone know how I can get this functionality to work?
I know I could just convert my sprite to an image, or add a button, and the other script will work, but for a number of reasons, those two options weren't very attractive.

 

You have two major ways to get "OnMouseOver"-ish thing to work:
- Use "Both" InputSystem setting in your player, so the old system will fire the OnMouse* methods (I don't really recommend it)
- Put colliders on it and fire a raycast per frame or per every N frame (whatever your use case is) from the mouse position into the scene and check if you hit a thing you're looking for. I recommend this, although obviously it's not that lazy and simple like an OnMouseOver method on a MonoBehaviour, but it's working exactly like that. You can do that from a manager-like class, so you aren't raycasting from every object separately, but once and you can sort through the results in the method you use for raycasting.

 

I'll give this (the raycasting) a go, thanks