New Game Engine Custom Cursor Script with Tutorial

Published by Kernon on February 20th, 2007 in Tutorials

Here's a great script and tutorial, created by "blendenzo" for Blender's Game Engine, showing you how to easily create a custom mouse cursor for your game projects.

This can be used for creating your own custom 2D cursors AND, there's nothing stopping you from using a 3D model as a mouse cursor!

Here's a small demo .blend file showing the results.

You can check out the tutorial, here.

Also, be sure to check out blendenzo's website for other goodies!

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1 Höhrer Feb 20th, 2007 at 8:03 pm

Didn't need it yet, but it's good to know such a nice starter thread/example/tutorial exists :)

Werner

PS: Am I the only one who finds the (rest of the) thread name "… 100% accurate, 100% of the time" kinda amusing? ;) I know there is probably a history/story behind this but nevertheless funny :)
2 fromthedark Feb 21st, 2007 at 4:46 am

Now maybe I have this all wrong but could the Game Engine be used for an interactive walk through too? That would be way cool! Any ideas?
3 Sovereignncc-e Feb 21st, 2007 at 5:24 am

The game engine can most certainly be used for an interactive walkthrough: I am currently in the process of making a huge one. If you are interested, e-mail me and I can send you a copy.
4 fromthedark Feb 21st, 2007 at 6:04 am

Sovereignncc-e:
I'd love to see what you have…just leave me something on my blog if you like. Thanks man!
5 Sovereignncc-e Feb 21st, 2007 at 4:20 pm

fromthedark: check your blog's e-mail
6 blendenzo Feb 21st, 2007 at 6:05 pm

Wow! I got featured on BlenderNation? I feel famous.

Werner, the story behind the thread title is a bit interesting. We who use the Game Engine have had custom cursor solutions in the past, but they were difficult to work with and inaccurate. This solution is the first I know of which actually translates the mouse position to a real 3D coordinate. Like I said in the thread on blenderartists, I was feeling a bit cocky when I wrote the title, so I may have overdone it. I used the Rasterizer to check the accuracy, and it's probably closer to 99% accurate, 99% of the time.
7 [a]drien Feb 22nd, 2007 at 4:19 pm

as ever, i imagine it's a good work
I can't see it right now but i will later :)

Adrien
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http://Adrien.3dvf.net
8 aaron May 3rd, 2007 at 5:45 pm

i am just getting started i can do with some help
9 elitewolverine Apr 26th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

this was a great find, i was working with this tut/file at 5am so i had a few noob mistakes like the camera in the overlay scenes start clip setting, but other than that…

this is the best best way to make a custom cursor for a ingame menu setup or anything for that matter

thanks a ton and to be honest i wouldnt have thought it would be that simple
10 a2zaa Aug 27th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

Great info!! Thank you so much. I've been having difficulties with other methods.
blendenzo, You obviously have great insight on the program as well as the ge.
Your site is fantastic. However, your contact link is disabled?

Signed,

Noob striding to Pro