Mouse Lock State

I have a script for moving my player camera but in this script i lock the mouse, how would i go about changing this when a UI box appears?

Code (CSharp):

1. {
2.  
3.     public float mouseSensitivity = 100f;
4.    
5.     public Transform playerBody;
6.  
7.     float xRotation = 0f;
8.  
9.     // Start is called before the first frame update
10.     void Start()
11.     {
12.         Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
13.     }
14.  
15.     // Update is called once per frame
16.     void Update()
17.     {
18.         // this is telling unity to get the mouse x and y feedback.
19.         float mouseX = Input.GetAxis("Mouse X") * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;
20.         float mouseY = Input.GetAxis("Mouse Y") * mouseSensitivity * Time.deltaTime;
21.  
22.         xRotation -= mouseY;
23.         // this clamps the camera roatation so it cannot exceed this angle
24.         xRotation = Mathf.Clamp(xRotation, -90f, 90f);
25.  
26.         transform.localRotation = Quaternion.Euler(xRotation, 0f, 0f);
27.  
28.        
29.         // this is the camera rotation
30.         playerBody.Rotate(Vector3.up * mouseX);
31.     }
32. }

 

The answer is as always: it depends. When you know for sure that after the UI box disappeared, you return to your gameplay, you can simply add a script to that UI box that contains the following methods:

Code (CSharp):

1. public class UnlockMouseForPopUps : MonoBehaviour
2. {
3.     void OnEnable ()
4.     {
5.         Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Confined;
6.     }
7.  
8.  
9.     void OnDisable ()
10.     {
11.         Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked;
12.     }
13. }

If the user is able to open some sort of menu or anything from there, however, that won't cut it.

 

Thanks this works sort of I can now see my mouse when the pop up is displayed but it remains locked to the centre of the screen.

should i now reference the original screen lock and disable it maybe with an if statement?

 

Okay never mind i got it.

All i needed to do was change .Confined to .None and this freed my mouse movement.
thanks for your help