How do I make a crosshair?

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I'm making a first person game where you pick up and move objects around, and I've made a circular crosshair, put it on a plane, made it a child of the First Person Controller, but whenever I look around in the game, the crosshair goes through walls, despite its closeness to the player, and it won't move up or down. What am I doing wrong here?

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Answer by felixfors · Jan 08, 2016 at 11:13 PM

Create a Canvas by following thees steps. 1. click on " GameObject" top of the unity window and then UI > Canvas 2. Select the canvas in your Hierachy window and click on " GameObject > image. 3. Import your crosshair texture to unity and change the texture type from " Texture" to "Sprite 2d and UI" 4. change the UI image component to your crosshair texture. 5. select your canvas and change the "Ui Scale mode " from Constant Pixel Size to " Scale with screen size"

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Shadow0599 · Jan 09, 2016 at 04:45 AM 0

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That seems like it would work, but my crosshair is off-center and ridiculously big, as well as incredibly faded and barely visible. I'm new to this, so I'm sorry if I'm missing something.

felixfors Shadow0599 · Jan 09, 2016 at 11:21 AM 0

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Well if it is off centered you most have done something wrong, because if you follow my steps above it will automaticly be in the center of your screen as defualt and the size is really easy to fix afterwards, just change the width and height of the rect transform component of the image object

Shadow0599 felixfors · Jan 10, 2016 at 07:24 PM 0

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Never$$anonymous$$d I was able to figure out how to work the UI canvas. Thank you!

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Answer by abandon_games · Apr 20, 2021 at 02:31 PM

For anyone having issues getting your crosshair/reticle image to appear in the middle of the screen with the steps above, try using a Panel (so hierarchy is Canvas > Panel > Image)

here's a good, quick tutorial on creating a dynamic crosshair/reticle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7DIdKTNjfQ

and this guy created 200 crosshairs that you can download for free - https://kenney.nl/assets/crosshair-pack

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