How to make cursor locked but active in Unity 2017?

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I'm trying to have a world-space UI, and a FirstPersonController which should be able to interact with that UI via aiming reticle, basically meaning via (visible or invisible, not important to me) hardware cursor locked to the center of the screen (how Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked does), but I still need it to dispatch events to UI elements, which CursorLockMode.Locked doesn't do

Firstly, how do I do this in any way?

Secondly, I assume all suggested answers will be more or less hacky, as all answers I found so far (which didn't work) were, so... in case a Unity employee will read this - there should be an easy and obvious way to do this, as well as a normal way to set cursor's position. To be honest, I'm very surprised there's no Cursor.SetPosition function (which would basically solve my issue as I would just be doing SetPosition(center of screen) at each frame).

OR, if I'm going about this the wrong way, what would be the right way to make Unity UI elements respond to custom-positioned reticle as if it were the cursor?

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Answer by NoDumbQuestion · May 04, 2018 at 08:15 AM

@sh_code @Harinezumi You can create a custom cursor for UI mouse event when Cursor.lockState = CursorLockMode.Locked.

You could use Input.GetAxis for MouseX and Mouse Y as they represent mouse movement.

Or for advance method you could have update() method for Event.current to get real mouse delta position.

PS: Change your name sh_code. @ notification not work with your name.

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