Loop through the entities/nodes

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Hi,
I have self-hosted Playcanvas app. Part of the code for creating playcanvas app as follow :

      canvas = createCanvas();
      devices = createInputDevices(canvas);

  
          app = new pc.Application(canvas, {
              elementInput: devices.elementInput,
              keyboard: devices.keyboard,
              mouse: devices.mouse,
              gamepads: devices.gamepads,
              touch: devices.touch,
              graphicsDeviceOptions: window.CONTEXT_OPTIONS,
              assetPrefix: window.ASSET_PREFIX || "",
              scriptPrefix: window.SCRIPT_PREFIX || "",
              scriptsOrder: window.SCRIPTS || [ ]
          });

The scenes are loaded to the app with other script from json file.

How can I loop through all the entities (some boxs) in the app/scene, add “on click” event, change their color?
I want to also to show information when the user click on each box.

The photo below show what I get from console.log(this.app.root):
I am trying to acess graph node “3D” and it’s children shown with red border.

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If I understood clear, there is some methods of Entity: find, findByName, et.c.

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You have to use raycasting or framebuffer picking. This set of tutorials/project samples should help: https://developer.playcanvas.com/en/tutorials/?tags=raycast

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Thank you guys for your help. What I was doing is to integrate Playcanvas inside Meteorjs application which uses React for front-end rendering. I made Playcanvas component that can speak with MongoDB database and exchange data with my Web application. The problem was that I was calling the findByTag command before it finishes loading thus nothing was returned. The problem is solved now.
The result of the App look as shown in the picture

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When user interacts with the UI on the left the color of the balls change to reflect the overall satisfaction level.

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