Release mouse control to use GUI and to paint

[Realgar]

Hi everybody, (this i s probably a silly question, and perhaps I must found it in the documentation), but how could I fix or block the camera movement , to release my mouse cursor and use tools on my GUI ? I made a 3d painting app, and I need to have a key which let the user paint or use GUI to select color or textures. Then he could hit the key to reactivate the FPS mode with the camera... Thank's a lot if you can help me and save time ! (Before I used right mouse to have a orbit move of the cam, and the painting or the UI access was not while the camera moved...)

 

[Andrew]

To unlock the cursor, set Cursor.lockState to CursorLockMode.None.

To freeze the camera's movement and rotation, you could add an additional check at the beginning of CameraController.Rotate/Move that checks if a particular ability on the character is active and return if so.

 

[Realgar]

Thank's for you answer ! Do you think I could also make it using the "View Types" fonctionnality ?

 

[maaxiim]

Would using OnEnableGameplayInput help in this case?

private void OnYourPaintGUIDisabled()
{
    ExecuteEvent(m_Character, "OnEnableGameplayInput", true);
}

private void OnYourPaintGUIEnabled()
{
    ExecuteEvent(m_Character, "OnEnableGameplayInput", false);
}

Where those 2 methods I just invented to illustrate how you could use it? I'm pretty much an Opsive newbie myself, but I did use that successfully to stop camera movement while activating a radial menu...

 

[Realgar]

Great ! Thank's a lot for your reactivity Andrew, Maaxiim ! I'm going to try theses solutions.

 

[Realgar]

It works great ! Do you know if there such an event to block just the camera but not the mov of the character (WASD keys) ?

 

[Andrew]

As far as I know there isn't an out-of-the-box solution for that. You can always set the CameraController's character anchor transform to a stationary object (although this would only block the camera's movement, not rotation - blocking its rotation may require a little custom code, e.g. what I suggested in my previous post).

 

[Realgar]

Thank's a lot !