Nova Elements only selectable in Scene View with a drag click

[JoshSauter]

Not 100% that this is a bug and not by design, but it seems that in the Scene View in Unity, you can only select Nova UI elements by clicking and dragging a selection box across them, and that clicking without dragging does not work. It took me a few days to realize there even was a way to select them in the Scene View, but being able to just click on them for selection would be an improvement to the UX of Nova in general. Thanks!

[adgray1]

Clicking elements to select in scene view (without dragging) is supported, so it would be considered a bug if it's not working. That said, if multiple UIBlocks are stacked on top of each other, you may need to click multiple times to cycle to the one you're aiming for, similar to the Transform tool.

Mind providing some more details or even a screenshot/video? And which version of Unity are you using?

[JoshSauter]

It's definitely not an issue of stacking, my input would fall through to non-Nova GameObjects behind the Nova elements consistently. I am using Unity version 2022.2.0b3.2730, and I took a recording showing the behavior I described (unlisted of course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr-bW9jKdaU

[adgray1]

This appears to be caused by a change Unity introduced in an alpha release of 2022.2 - seems to be a bug on their end, but we found a workaround we can publish in our next release - we're still waiting on the asset store team to complete their review of our most recent update (v1.0.1), so this fix will come in the following release (Nova v1.0.2).

In the meantime, if you can and are willing to downgrade your project to a version of 2022.1, then Nova scene view selection will work there without needing to drag.

Good find! And thanks for the details and video!

[JoshSauter]

Thanks! I'm not surprised to hear that it's a Unity bug considering I am using a beta release version right now. It's not a big enough deal for me to downgrade my project so I'll just wait for the fix to come through and continue using the hierarchy for selection for now.

[adgray1]

Latest release, v1.0.1, has been published to the asset store with the fix! Managed to get it into 1.0.1, even though originally we expected to have to wait until v1.0.2 to submit this change.