Hi guys, I’m working on a top down shooter, where the character moves around with WASD controls and shooting is controlled by the mouse.
I enabled the “Show crosshair” on MyController blueprint, under mouse settings, and now I’m trying to change the standard crosshair with a new custom one, made by me.
I searched around some guide, but I can’t understand where I should make the blueprint: I already have a HUD blueprint, this one:
I go the graph editor and search for the “Receive Draw HUD” but I can’t find it, neither with the context sensitive disabled. So What should I do?
I followed step by step the Twin Stick shooter tutorials from the UE4 you tube channel, I just made some changes around (but not to the hud)…
This is the HUD tutorial, I have the exactly same as him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwa0zwkYUeQ&list=PLZlv_N0_O1gb5sdygbSiEU7hb0eomNLdq&index=21
Cursors are set in playerController blueprint. Make your own player controller, set it in game mode. And there will be cursor property.
However i do not know how to add or replace one of default cursors with my custom, at least not trought player controller.
Instead i added 3d widget to my player pawn. And on event tick i set its position to “mouse hit under cursor”.
Then i render that 3d widget in screen space (not world space) this makes it look like usual hud cursor.
A bit of workaround but it works. And it is very accurate.
uhmm sorry but I’m quite a newbie, I didn’t understand what actually does your blueprint… would you please post a screen of the result on the viewport?
My cursor BP is a bit more complicated that one described above. I calculate mouse pointer trace from camera to horizontal plane at [0,0,0], and use that as location of cursor.
Also cursor has additional code to detect enemies, range visibility etc, cannot separate it now and i do not have backup with first simple version of it. On top of it all i use components, interfaces, and i am in middle of coding that all for multiplayer. So pictures will do not help.
Instead i try to describe that cursor thing in simple steps:
create additional component in your player pawn blueprint, best for this would be “Arrow component”
on top of that arrow (in hierarchy list) place “widget component” (it will say its experimental)
create new simple UMG widget, as its picture add your cursor material. set anchors to centered, and x: 0.5 y:05 so cursor picture is centered exactly over anchor.
apply that new cursor widget to experimental widget in pawn blueprint
now in player pawn “event tick” event find location of mouse cursor in 3d and set arrow component location to same as cursor location. Your widget cursor should follow mouse.
last thins is setting experimantal 3d widget to be rendered in screen space, so its on top of all geometry.
uhm I meant a screen of the game, just to see what is the final result, but i will try to rebuild the bp following your steps, thank you!
Anyway, today I found this videotutorial: Blueprints - How to Create a Custom Cursor - Unreal Engine 4 - YouTube
I tried to replicate it in both my project and in the thirdperson template, but doesn’t work in any case. I’m missing something…
You can change the default cursor / crosshair in the TopDownCharacter Blueprint. Under components in the top left (the hierarchie) you will see an object CursorToWorld. This is the default cursor and it has a material assigned to it (M_Cursor_Decal) where you can change color, etc… or you could possibly replace it with another image / component. I only wanted to change the color so I’m posting this here for other people trying to change the color.
