Cursor like TableTop Simulator

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Any idea how to get the cursor to do this ?
I tried to find a tutorial and couldn’t find it.

( reference the Tabletop Simulator game )

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do a linetrace from the camera to the hitlocation under mouse. depending on the length of the linestrace, scale the 2d cursor which is always facing the camera.

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Hello !
I have a little trouble understanding the method.

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@Vollgaser suggested you scaled the cursor by distance. Here you’re scaling some actor by world location - making something orders of magnitude larger than it should be.

An alternative approach:

  • a widget component attached to the camera pawn and using absolute location & rotation
  • draw it in world space - automatic scaling
  • the widget’s material ignores depth - no need to worry about occlusion
  • trace on tick setting location & rotation of the component to face the camera
  • if there’s no geometry to trace against (you run out of table) you can Line Plane Intersect to simulate it; or surround the room with invisible collision boxes

Worth trying, imho…

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I probably forgot to mention that I was a little beginner. ^^

I put a component widget attached to the camera.

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EDIT :

I followed these instructions.
what do you think ?

My video :