Official Survey and Discussion - "Right-Click" (contextual) menu in the Scene View

All your presenting is to take what we already can do by right clicking the asset (lets say a rock), in the hierarchy and making it easier by just right clicking the object itself in-scene. Im not opposed to this idea, as other progs do this.

I feel im not understanding exactly what your goal is. Does this mean the right click in the hierarchy will be removed, and only accessable from right clicking the object in-scene?. Maybe showing an example would better help people understand what you are presenting.

 

Thanks for clarifying that. I think its a great idea to impliment, and would speed up project time, my personal one is delete, so many times i just want to click and delete (as i do in other progs), and not have to make an additional process to do so.

Moving (not removing) the right clicking menu in the hierarchy, to a right click in-scene would be great, and then elaborating on it would really help. Love the idea, thanks for your effort, appreciated

 

This thread never got any attention! womp womp.

So in general yes, a thing like a right click menu that's invokable in the scene view is nice. It can't be on rmb since that's already used to rotate the camera and differentiating between click and drag is annoying and bad.


One of the worst things about using Unity today is the difficulty of selecting things in the scene view. Especially in 2D games, you end up with a lot of transparent elements overlapping each other, and selecting the one you want is super annoying. You can end up clicking the same pixel 10+ times to get to the object you want. Prefabs and [SelectionBase] just not cooperating with each other does not help at all.

The obvious solution, to me, is to have a pop-up menu you can bring up under the mouse that shows a hierarchy of all the objects that's under the mouse. We can do this ourselves (and have, at times!), but that's based on renderer/collider bounds, which is not as accurate as the algorithm Unity uses to decide what object(s) the mouse is over or not.

A nice way to solve this partially for us (so we can make neat tools for our workflow instead of you having to fumble around to find a general purpose one) is to do two things:
- Make it easy to open a temporary Overlay under where the mouse is (so we don't have to fiddle with drawing UI in DuringSceneGUI)
- Expose the internal function that has to exist somewhere that decides "which objects are under the mouse" that's used to cycle through objects when we click in the scene view.

 

Sorry for a not so much related discussion.
We have good experience with the Selection Utility Tool. This help us select overlapped objects In 2D game.
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/selection-utility-179537#version-current

But in 2022 the temporary pan tool implementation changed and make sceneView stuck at the Pan Tool.
SceneView become stuck when show a popup window with right click in SceneView.duringSceneGUI.
Selection Utility set GUIUtility.hotControl to 0 to get rid of the stuck.

2021 implementation

Code (CSharp):

1. static void UpdateViewToolState(Event evt)
2.         {
3.             bool shouldBeActive = false;
4.             if (GUIUtility.hotControl == 0 || Tools.s_LockedViewTool != ViewTool.None)
5.             {
6.                 bool viewShortcut = evt.type != EventType.Used && (evt.alt || evt.button == 1 || evt.button == 2);
7.                 shouldBeActive = Tools.s_LockedViewTool != ViewTool.None || Tools.current == Tool.View || viewShortcut;
8.             }
9.             if (shouldBeActive != s_ViewToolActive)
10.             {
11.                 s_ViewToolActive = shouldBeActive;
12.                 viewToolActiveChanged?.Invoke();
13.             }
14.         }
15.  

2022.2 implementation

Code (CSharp):

1. static void UpdateViewToolState(Event evt)
2.         {
3.             bool shouldBeActive = false;
4.             if (evt?.type == EventType.MouseDown)
5.             {
6.                 var eventKeyCombination = new[] { KeyCombination.FromInput(evt) };
7.                 foreach (var shortcut in ViewToolShortcuts)
8.                     shouldBeActive |= shortcut?.StartsWith(eventKeyCombination) ?? false;
9.             }
10.  
11.             shouldBeActive |= Tools.s_LockedViewTool != ViewTool.None || Tools.current == Tool.View;
12.             if (shouldBeActive != s_ViewToolActive)
13.             {
14.                 s_ViewToolActive = shouldBeActive;
15.                 viewToolActiveChanged?.Invoke();
16.             }
17.         }

Any suggestion to fix the problem? We are eager to have a project version change due to Mac M1 crash problem.

 

@gabrielw_unity

So this is why my right click menu got messed up since 2022.2 for Interactor.

Normally if my spawner window is opened, right click in sceneview (within specified double click time as ms) opens a spawner menu which allows users to select prefabs to spawn on clicked position/object.


But since 2022.2, it gets stuck with sceneview camera movement (like EventType.MouseUp is never happened) when menu pops up.

So how can these two coexist when you implement this?

 

Has a solution for this been found? Would really like to add a right click menu to 2022.3, but this issue makes it quite annoying.

 

Maybe, see here: https://forum.unity.com/threads/cus...n-the-contextual-system.1515431/#post-9471121

 

Hi @gabrielw_unity

Is there a way to disable contexual menu for a while in the api?