Hey guys, I am trying to get the mouse delta with the GetMouseX/Y nodes. It only reports if I press one of the mouse keys at same time as I move it though.
My goal is to use the mouse speed as a multiplier for weapon sway. It seems like this should be the simplest way. Another option is that I can get the mouse position in screen space and compare it with itself on tick (vector subtract to get magnitude which would indicate speed, i think?), however I wonder if there is not a simpler way?
So this looks like an actual bug related to is you have the cursor shown in game, which I do as im using top down template.
if i hide the cursor then it works as expected.
hide the mouse cursor
I’ve done that but I had to make a minor workaround. Because this is topdown game with UI on screen that I need to be able to click. However, it’s easy workaround.
I just get the location and when the cursor gets close to the UI, i can toggle cusror on and off.
This continues to be a problem…
If i have the cursor set to not visible, then the mouse delta reports but I cannot click any UI. Changing the SetShowMouse cursor bool and any of the input mode functions at runtime doesn’t change anything.
So I only have two options, use with the cursor enabled and find a work around for clicking UI, or disable the cursor and find workaround for mouse delta not reporting. I wish I knew what was causing the problem.
if what you need are deltas you can build your own delta mouse reading this and subtracting previous reading 
hey that works great! saved me a lot of time. i’m really slow with math stuff
I made one change in that I think it may be best to use percentages, since the screen size may change. I think this way, the math would always be the same. And also if i know its always 0-1 range, then i can base the rest of my calculations from that (which is how i already had it setup before)
I explained this bug here:
Hopefully the engine is some day updated to fix this.
thanks for sharing.
I had tried like constantly setting to game mode like that, but the problem is that I need both game and UI to be active because i have UI on screen to be clicked at any time (top down RTS style game).
Perhaps there is some work around, but I think for now, just doing a manual calculation for the mouse delta is probably the easiest thing.
