I want the cursor to be able to rotate (point) in the direction the player is moving the mouse. I don’t care about the ablity to have animated cursors, or being able to change them.
What solutions have you tried so far?
I’ve tried using a series of differently rotated images and changing the player’s cursor image when it’s moved in a specific direction but it’s choppy and not very fluid.
In my question I stated that i did not care for the animated cursor nor the abality to change the cursor. I would like the cursor to carry inertia and rotate around the “tip” when the mouse is moved.
Turn the mouse icon off, then use an ImageLabel to be a fake mouse icon.
local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")
local RunService = game:GetService("RunService")
local Cursor = script.Parent
local Last = Vector2.new(0, 0)
local function UpdateCursor()
local Position = UserInputService:GetMouseLocation()
local Delta = Last - Position
if Delta.Magnitude < 5 then return end
Cursor.Rotation = math.deg(math.atan2(Last.Y - Position.Y, Last.X - Position.X)) - 90
Cursor.Position = UDim2.new(0, Position.X, 0, Position.Y)
Last = Position
end
UserInputService.MouseIconEnabled = false
RunService.Heartbeat:Connect(UpdateCursor)
then just rotate the mouse to face the direction of where it moved to if the distance it moved is greater than a pre-set amount of pixels. I chose 5 but you can choose anything.
This does not rotate the frame about the tip of the mouse, but the effect is good enough when rotating from the center due to the size of the image being small.
