Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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✔️ Works in 2020.3 ➕ 2020.1

The mouse pointer is essential to almost all PC games. In this video, I show how to get it's position and work with it in screen, viewport, and world space, as well as how cameras affect these spaces. I also explore two ways to implement mouse picking, or how to tell if the pointer is over an object in the world.

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💬 Video transcript
► docs.google.com/document/d/1PP1p8bQ0VaYJMrUiy6XLQeJsVWH7Xv3RoJ5WOCwAxgI/edit?usp=sharing

📚 Reference scripts
► gist.github.com/NedMakesGames/51b0359a9e0724644269691d447d87c4

⏲️ Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:11 Screen position
0:46 Viewport position
1:26 World position
2:54 Mouse over messages
3:31 Mouse over raycasts
4:01 Wrap up and credits

🎖️ Credits and references:
• MarkGX: Drag a GameObject with the mouse - answers.unity.com/questions/12322/drag-gameobject-with-mouse.html
• Astigmatic: Special Elite font - fontsquirrel.com/fonts/special-elite
• trinter: LowPoly Mouse - cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/industrial/tool/lowpoly-mouse

Music:
Bleeping Demo by Kevin MacLeod
Link: incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/7012-bleeping-demo
License: filmmusic.io/standard-license

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