Question Cursor can't click in Locked mouse state

I want my mouse cursor always in the center of my screen, but also I want to be able to click UI buttons.

When I use

Code (CSharp):

1. cursor.Lockstate = CursorLockmode.Locked

it stays in the middle of the screen, but it doesn't register hits anymore.

I tried a little bit with raycasts to detect if I hit a UI button, but I can't get it to work, because it doesn't detect the buttons.

Is there a way to get both keep the mouse cursor in the middle of the screen, but also be able to click UI buttons.

 

Override the Standalone Input Module with your own logic, here's an example: https://gist.github.com/EmmaEwert/fad38a248f62e1c7267daa4e778468b1

 

Does it still work? When I add it to the Event System it puts a visible cursor in the middle of the screen but it still doesn't interact with the ui

 

The linked code works. Do you have a crosshair as a Unity UI Image? Turn off the Raycast Target on it since that Image might be receiving mouse clicks and preventing input from being used for whatever's underneath the crosshair.

The only problem with the code posted is that it makes the cursor visible even while locked on the center. It seems rapidly changing Cursor.lockState within the same frame doesn't really work as expected.

UnityEngine.EventSystems.PointerInputModule, unfortunately, just assumes that we always want the UI to be disabled when Cursor.lockState == CursorLockMode.Locked, it doesn't provide an option to circumvent that.

Only way I was able to fix it is to copy-paste the underlying code of GetMousePointerEventData, ProcessMove, and ProcessDrag into that custom FirstPersonInputModule (instead of just calling the base methods), then removing the code that disables functionality when Cursor.lockState == CursorLockMode.Locked.

It's not really an advisable thing to do, since it makes the FirstPersonInputModule potentially become incompatible if a version update of Unity UI ever comes that changes the code inside PointerInputModule.