How to set the position of a movable widget inside of a world space widget component to the mouse position?

[Estrange]

I’m trying to make a widget that I can drag around with the mouse, but my widget is in world space, not the viewport.

I have tried everything I can think of, plus any tutorial I could find (They work when the widget is in the viewport, but not when it’s in world space.)

Higharchy example of the widget that the widget component is using:

• Canvas panel.
  –Widget I want to move around in the canvas panel.

I’ll post some pictures and videos of my attempts and the result I’m getting.

Method 1: I’m not quite sure why it lags behind.

Method 2: This clearly shows my lack of understanding and ability to covert the viewport space to the coordinates inside the canvas.

I’ll be extremely grateful for any help I receive, even if it’s only asking me why I’m doing some of the stupid things I’m doing. Thank you.

[Supremative]

Look at this, please.

Mouse Position doesnt update while pressing a button

[MoveVirtualWidget] I’ve tried to resolve the issue myself and found the following solution: Create a separate blueprint actor to find the virtual mouse position: [image] Add the following function to the actor: [image] Organize your widget blueprint like this: [image] [image]

Mouse Position doesnt update while pressing a button

I’ve found a more straightforward solution: Use OnDragOver: [image] [image] And it’s working.

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[Estrange]

I’m hesitant to try the first solution you posted because as shown in your video, it seems to suffer the same lag as the first one I posted.
As for the second one, it functioned much like the second one I posted. Not sure if I did something wrong, or if it just doesn’t work anymore.

[Zipax64]

Hey Estrange. did you ever found a solution for this one?

[Estrange]

A perfect solution? No.
The best result you will get, (using a widget component) will lag like the ones Supremative showed off above (I didn’t use those methods, I made my own and it too lags).

To my understanding, the widget component is slow and renders about 1 second behind.
I did a small amount of looking to see if anyone had a faster way of rendering a widget to a mesh, but I quickly gave up. Currently, I’ve gone with the option to mitigate the appearance of lag by making my mouse cursor invisible and using an image as a fake cursor (much harder to tell it’s lagging behind).

[Charles.E.Flory]

Oddly enough, I find that if I switch Handled to Unhandled in your OnMouseMove override function for your dragged widget, the lag disappears. Hope this helps someone else.