How To Create And Use A Custom Mouse Cursor In Unreal Engine 5 (Tutorial)

[@Jacked3DPrinting]

For new users like myself, to find the, "Set Show Cursor" to true, first, 'get player controller,' then click and drag from that pin and search for cursor. Thanks again for the vid btw

[@trevorl860]

Get owning player rather than get player controller is also a good practice to do incase you ever want to swap the player controller or use multiplayer features. Get owning player makes the event only happen for the player controller that executes the command, rather than a prespecified player controller.

[@t0r3nt10n]

Concise and effective tutorial. Thank you.

[@PatrickTheDM]

I'm using 5.0 and it works fine in standalone game mode, but I do get an extra hand cursor in simulate in the editor.

[@LittleBlue42]

Where in that widget is the click point? is it in the very top left?

[@JesseLeeHumphry]

It looks like it's actually the center of the rendered widget. So you'll need to adjust your pointer accordingly; if you have an actual arrow, its point should touch the center anchor of the widget

[@fl1nch_155]

I was wondering how to do this yesterday, thanks!

[@wesss9353]

Great video Matt

[@prakharagarwal3769]

Hey Matt, please let me know how to execute a function such that if the condition of function is true then on click event of a button executes a certain operation and if the condition is false then on click event of the same button executes another operation

[@space_mex_og1795]

Are you planning on using the function in the blueprint u making it in or another function if you are using it in another bp u have to cast to the bp u made it in. And to do the condition make a branch statement

[@prakharagarwal3769]

@@space_mex_og1795 ok thanks bro

[@UnrealByYourself]

Nice and short! Keep it up

[@zombieallen]

When I load a level and open a menu widget my custom cursor is gone. Any idea why that might be?

[@zombieallen]

Never mind, I discovered I had a "Remove all widgets" node in the menu widget blueprint.

[@QualityGames2023]

great video sir, thank you

[@DenisZaharenko]

Are you back? :D

[@TakiGamesOfficial]

I’d love a tutorial on how create a gamepad controlled mouse

[@goldenorbstudios]

Thank you!

[@karenrogregez1670]

Will you please do a rail shooter tutorial?

[@daedrablast8085]

funny thing: i did also a mouse cursor widget, but instead of the normal settings way i just had hidden my mouse and kept track of my mouse's position and moved my widget there.

[@gustavboye6691]

why does it disappear when i left click?

[@RavensGaming8422]

Hey Matt, can we get a movement video focused on abnormal sized character like sharks? There is no information anywhere to help figure out where to start in making this type of character. Basically a shark can only move forward or with animations turn left and right at a "strafe" look. Not hard turning like all other character types. If you could make this it would be a huge favour lol :)

[@KeebRogers]

I love all your videos They help a lot. With this one im not exactly sure what happened, but i have to click out of the Name area and press enter for it to show up on my hub. If i enter name and just press enter it does nothing. Ill go over the video for a 4th time. Probly something i did. But any directions would be helpful. Thank you have a good day

[@kayrawolf4408]

What should I do to prevent bots from being autoReSpawn in Lyra starter game? thank you.

[@AurynGaming]

@matt aspland , Im not sure why more viewers or your supporters dont tell you this but your sub/notification bell animation volume in your videos is absolutely obnoxious, and you edit it in over your own voice much of the time! Do you not watch them back and notice how much the volume is off? It seems you just slap it in at a generic time stamp rather than wait or create a proper time to interject with it. Smart skip sub/notify extensions are starting to be triggered on your videos (I have this enabled for all channels i sub to as i dont need reminding to sub in each video) this is an issue because it skips you talking about the video. On desktop its not too bad to force the video back but on mobile/tablets/smart devices it just skips your content and its not so easy to overide it. Hope that makes sense

[@MartKart8]

I don't have photoshop

[@MattAspland]

There are many free alternatives you can use, it doesn't need to be a photoshop. Any image editing software will do. I'll leave a link below to some free alternatives. www.laptopmag.com/uk/news/best-free-alternatives-to-adobe-photoshop

[@AngryPlayerGaming]

you can use anything that can edit and save as png. Even MS paint will work.

[@space_mex_og1795]

Gimp is free and easy to use

[@gamethingstuff]

noice

[@KB-nt7eg]

This doesnt actually work if you run a build or standalone game. Therefore, it's pointless unless you're goal is just to simulate your game forever.

[@grahamsmallwood]

Works for me in 5.4. Has classic software cursor input lag he hides by not showing both at same time, but that's a separate issue.

[@dobacetr]

The fact that you are setting the default cursor makes this tutorial underwhelming. You should set it to another type and show how to properly change it.

[@grahamsmallwood]

And how to fix the lag.