Making a pseudo cursor

[boreal dock]

I haven't seen this talked about before, but how would I make a pseudo cursor like the one detailed in my image? I believe there's some way I can use the way roblox locks your cursor from first person/shift lock into this

[gleaming gate]

Is the cursor 2D or 3D

[boreal dock]

2D

the game is birds-eye view

[gleaming gate]

Wdym by "moving the player moves the cursor", isnt it supposed to be tied to the mouse position (with a distance limit)

[boreal dock]

think of it like a big box

The cursor position is tied to the player position

[neat fable]

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[boreal dock]

but half-way kinda

basically, if you move the mouse, it just moves the mouse

if you move the player, the cursor would move with the player

[gleaming gate]

but you said it takes input from the mouse?

[boreal dock]

yes, because you cannot directly control the mouse through scripts apparently

which is why the pseudo cursor is needed to behave like that

[gleaming gate]

Well your explaination is kinda self contradicting. I am going to take a wild guess and say that what you are trying to do is to limit how far the mouse can get from the player?

[boreal dock]

yea

idk if maybe I explained it wrong, maybe a video would've been better

to be more blunt, i want to recreate the cursor system used in hotline miami

[gleaming gate]

from just checking a little bit, it seems like the cursor is a fixed distance from the player

is that all you want?

The cursor has no affect on the "fake cursor" it just rotates the player to look in the right direction?

@boreal dock

[boreal dock]

No, I already have something which will rotate the character to face the cursor

as seen in the video, the cursor hits a point where it can no longer move, aswell as moving with the character

[whole parcel]

@boreal dock

• Use https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/UserInputService#MouseIconEnabled to hide the default cursor
• Use https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/UserInputService#MouseBehavior to lock the cursor to the center of the screen
• Use https://create.roblox.com/docs/reference/engine/classes/UserInputService#InputChanged to detect movement of the mouse

Whenever the cursor moves by some amount, move your pseudo cursor by the same amount

From there you can apply whatever transformations or restrictions you want on the psueo cursor's position

[boreal dock]

oh

thanks

I'll try looking into this

I'm still a beginner so this is all new

[boreal dock]

cursor hidden, and locked within the constraints of the window, thank you so much!

now to do the hard part... learning how to make the pseudo cursor