Selection.activeGameObject

Description

Returns the active game object. (The one shown in the inspector).

It will also return game objects that might be prefabs or non-modifiable objects.

    // Rotates the selected Game Object +45 degrees if the user presses 'g'
    // or -45 degrees if the user presses 'Shift + g'
    // If no object is selected, the Menus are grayed out.

    @MenuItem ("Example/Rotate Green +45 _g")
    static function RotateGreenPlus45() {
        var obj = Selection.activeGameObject;
        obj.transform.Rotate(Vector3.up*45);
    }

    @MenuItem ("Example/Rotate Green +45 _g", true)
    static function ValidatePlus45() {
        return Selection.activeGameObject != null;
    }


    @MenuItem ("Example/Rotate green -45 #g")
    static function RotateGreenMinus45() {
        var obj = Selection.activeGameObject;
        obj.transform.Rotate(Vector3.down*45);
    }

    @MenuItem ("Example/Rotate green -45 #g", true)
    static function ValidateMinus45() {
        return Selection.activeGameObject != null;
    }