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Daniel Kirwan
1,094 PointsI'm having the same problem as someone else where I cannot select the green boxes in the environment on the scene view
I can access and move around the different parts of the environment from the hierarchy window but cannot select them the way the video shows. Is this a new bug with Unity?
5 Answers
Nick Pettit
Treehouse TeacherHi Daniel Kirwan,
I posted the answer to this in another thread: https://teamtreehouse.com/community/cant-select-the-green-boxes
Here's a summary of the fix:
- Go to the Edit menu and choose Project Settings > Quality.
- In the Inspector window, select the High Quality option.
- In the Inspector window, under the Rendering section, change the Anti Aliasing dropdown to Disabled.
I'm working with our video team to correct the "Setup the Project" video where we talk about Quality Settings so that anti-aliasing is turned off.
George Akinian
17,615 PointsExcuse me,
Solution is simple. In the upper left corner of the window above where it says Hierarchy there are five buttons. The first one is the "hand"(nav tool), the second one is the "multidirectional pointer"(position tool). If you have the "hand" selected you are not able to select items, and you need to switch to the multidirectional pointer(position tool) right next to it. Only than you are able to select items inside the environment.
Cheers.
Maisoui Barham
2,644 PointsThanks, Paul!
Nick Pettit
Treehouse TeacherHi Daniel,
A couple things to check:
- Are you sure you're in the Scene view and not the Game view? Sometimes I forget that I'm looking at the game view and I try to click objects, which is only possible in the Scene view. You can find this by looking for the window tabs that say "Scene" and "Game".
- When you click on a game object inside of a prefab, Unity will select the prefab by default. You need to then click the desired object again to select that specific game object. In the video, you'll notice that before I click on a game object, I already have the Environment prefab selected, which is why I'm able to click on them.
If that still doesn't work, can you tell me which operating system you're using? I just tried this with a fresh Unity project on Windows 8.1 using Unity v5.1.3f1, imported the assets, and I didn't have any issues. Still, it could be some sort of bug in Unity.
Daniel Kirwan
1,094 PointsI am in the scene view. I have the environment prefab selected on the left like in the video. And it deselects everything. I am using windows 10 with the newest version of Unity.
Nick Pettit
Treehouse TeacherThat's really strange.
What happens when you double click with the left mouse button on a rock or a log in the scene window? Still nothing?
Daniel Kirwan
1,094 PointsNothing happens at all.
Jonas Kekkonen
6,989 PointsI am on windows 8.1 and I have the same problem. I can select an object in hierarchy window, but not by clicking on an object in the scene view.
Thai Huynh
15,293 PointsThanks Nick for replying to Daniel's problem about selecting individual objects from the scene view. I experienced the same thing, but all good now :)
Jonas Kekkonen
6,989 PointsJonas Kekkonen
6,989 PointsYay, it worked! Thanks Nick.
Daniel Kirwan
1,094 PointsDaniel Kirwan
1,094 PointsThanks. That worked for me.