Show mouse cursor Hijacks Mouse inputs. (Alternative to interact system?)

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hey, I’ve spent most of the day trying to figure these options out.

You’re essentially inside a big machine, So it’s basically a camera blueprint with about 100 objects (Buttons and levers etc), and It’s From a first-person perspective from inside.

- I need 2/3 events. Essentially cursor over start, cursor over end and clicked.

Show Mouse Cursor

So show mouse cursor makes sense. It works fantastically, and I can set it up with each object fairly easily. You can look around, And works as intended.

However, It hijacks all mouse input without holding a button. Which is awkward in an FPS shot game. I want to be able to freely look around and interact with stuff using the mouse cursor.

Linetrace

Line trace is the alternative, But this gets really messy and confusing.

I can’t seem to work out how to connect the events, and any attempt to get some sort of BPI_Interect system working has issues when essentially all the objects are in one blueprint.

I could theoretically go through over 100 or so objects and make blueprints for each, but…Oof compared to just holding down a button.

Anyone have any ideas?

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you could go the other way and move the camera on tick based on GetHitResultUnderCursor

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Oooo ok this is interesting. The camera is kind of already on tick, as I’m using line trace and managed to get hover system to work like this.

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How would I set up get hit result under cursor?

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is another node that basically does what you’re already doing, so what you can do is get a HitResult from your camera and your mouse and FindLookAtRotation and then RInerpt too it on tick

or you can use GetMousePosition/GetMousePositionInViewport and use some maths to see how far it is from the center of the screen and Add some rotation based on that, i use this for an RTS style Edge Scroll, but i lost my node which i was going to use as an example :rofl: