It is difficult to use studio while the game's mouse is locked in viewport

Feature Requests Studio Features
#1

I want to do things like select objects in the explorer, type commands, edit properties, etc. but this is impossible or very difficult to do when the mouse is locked because focusing any part of studio will force the mouse to be locked to the game’s viewport, and doing anything that unlocks the mouse will unlock it in the viewport too.

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#2 
game:GetService("UserInputService").InputBegan:Connect(function(obj)
  if obj.KeyCode == Enum.KeyCode.LeftControl then -- unlock mouse keybind
    game:GetService("UserInputService").MouseIconEnabled = not game:GetService("UserInputService").MouseIconEnabled
  end
  if game:GetService("UserInputService").MouseBehavior == Enum.MouseBehavior.Default then
      game:GetService("UserInputService").MouseBehavior = Enum.MouseBehavior.LockCenter
  else 
      game:GetService("UserInputService").MouseBehavior = Enum.MouseBehavior.Default 
  end
end)

use the code above in a localscript to unlock/lock the mouse by pressing left control

#3

It’s always possible to manually add things to unlock the mouse, but we shouldn’t need to do that, and it doesn’t solve all use cases anyway. It is often still desirable to keep the mouse in the locked state in the game itself e.g. you are trying to debug things that happen only while the mouse is locked.