Traversing the documentation and finding answers to your own questions is definitely an important skill to have.

This is an essential skill for all developers, and Unity’s documentation is quite nice so it shouldn’t be too difficult. Reading Unity Documentation (Optional)Ī good exercise for the reader would be to try to find out what function we are going to use from the Unity documentation. This will make sure your colours are reproduced accurately, at the cost of size (though, for a cursor sprite, the size shouldn’t be very big). Most importantly, you’ll have to change the texture type to Cursor in the inspector with your cursor texture selected.Īdditionally, for pixel textures like the one I will be using, set the filter mode to Clamp to disable anti-aliasing (so your texture doesn’t get blurred), and the Format to RGBA 32 bit if you have a colourful image that you don’t want compressed. You’ll want to import ( Import New Asset > /path/to/your/asset) your custom cursor into Unity, but you should change a few settings when you do this. You can make one in software like inkscape (free, extremely powerful vector image maker) or Aseprite (paid but cheap pixel art tool). jpeg, etc.) and probably with small dimensions. It must be an image file of some type (.png. In GUIs where the input method relies on hard keys, such as the five-way key on many mobile phones, there is no pointer employed, and instead the GUI relies on a clear focus state.Day 4: Trac3 Video Demo + Custom Crosshair Cursor Importingįirst, make sure you have your custom cursor sprite ready. The use of a pointer is employed when the input method, or pointing device, is a device that can move fluidly across a screen and select or highlight objects on the screen. The pointer commonly appears as an angled arrow (angled because historically that improved appearance on low resolution screens), but it can vary within different programs or operating systems. The cursor may also be repositioned using the pointer. It is distinct from the cursor, which responds to keyboard input.

It can be used in text-based or graphical user interfaces to select and move other elements. It signals the point where actions of the user take place. In computing, a pointer or mouse cursor (as part of a personal computer WIMP style of interaction) is a symbol or graphical image on the computer monitor or other display device that echoes movements of the pointing device, commonly a mouse, touchpad, or stylus pen. The mouse cursor is also called a pointer, owing to its resemblance in usage to a pointing stick. In computer user interfaces, a cursor is an indicator used to show the current position for user interaction on a computer monitor or other display device that will respond to input from a text input or pointing device.

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