how to refer to cloned objects in events puzzles

Hi there,
I reviewed your code and it seemed correct so I created my own and worked backward from there. Changing a clone’s material can be tricky but there are two possible solutions that may solve your issue.

I started with a cube (the main object) and a plane. The plane has a red material assigned to it and the default cube has a white material assigned to it. As I am sure you know in order to change materials the materials have to already be in the scene before you can make the switch so if you wanted to change all the cubes to red and then back you would need another plane that has the white material to make that happen.

With that out of the way…you are doing this with lists.
As you probably already know clones of an object get an incrementing number to append to the original object name. So if the original object is Cube, the first clone will be called Cube2 and the second called Cube3.

Since you are storing these in a list they will be associated by position in your list as:
position 0 = Cube2
position 1 = Cube3
in this example at least.

So the below code example starts with a single cube.
Creates an empty list – called “cloned cans”
I also create a variable called MyCanX which is the distance of X between each clone that will be created.
I created a simple loop to clone the cans, set the cube position and then set the clone colors to red.

Depending on how many clones you create, you may not know the name of a particular clone object but you know how many clones you created. I only have two in this example so I didn’t do anything elaborate with the onclick events and any logic to have a universal onclick and then determine if the object was in the list…but this will get you going.

I provide my code solution so you can see how I refer to them but nothing wrong with the way you are doing it.

After this I recreated your code and found a few things to be sure you are doing to ensure your code works. Your code itself is fine….so I am thinking its one of the two items below that has things not working.

1. Make sure you create your empty list_furniture at the start of your puzzle scenes…this should be an early initialization. You are probably already doing this but just not in the puzzle image supplied. If it’s not initialized before the onclick call the material will not transfer to the clone…and the click will just be ignored. You can test if your onclick is being ignored by placing a Print to Console in the onclick event.

2. Make sure you have the “gray” material in the scene on an object prior to requesting the material to be changed. I usually create a bunch of small material squares and hide them somewhere in the scene so they are all preloaded and available.

For the last part of your question the outline of the clones on hover.
As long as you onclick event is firing, your on hover outlines will work as long as you have outlining turned on in your 3D scene before you export it to GLTF.

Hope this helps.

Glad it got you on track. Would love to see the final product when you are done.