Yes, but also no. chatGPT clearly states that Unity games could allow the user to select a cursor, so it is not a mistake. The AI is lying to me here.
EHG could make a set of transparent layers that would sit always on top of everything else, and make each one of them have a different hovering cursor. Then, it could let the user select which one of these layers is active/visible, which in turn would make the cursor always have the shape of that hovering cursor. It would be similar to how you can hide an object on the ground with a filter, and in turn this makes it so that any pop-up that would show when you hover over the object will now not be shown, as if there was no item at all. You can not customize which cursor appears “when you hover over a chest”, but you might be able to customize what “is a chest”, or when the games believes that you are “hovering over a chest”.
Anyway, thanks for your patience and the great responses. I don’t think further discussion could yield anything of use.
No. What we’re saying is that the cursor for normal playing is the same for everyone. And the cursor for hovering a chest is the same for everyone. And the cursor for talking to an NPC is the same for everyone. And those all get defined when they make a game build and can’t be changed after that. They become an embedded asset.
No one is lying to you (other than maybe ChatGPT). Just look at all the Unity forums asking for this and everyone saying that it’s not possible. Is everyone lying about this? Or is it simply a limitation of Unity.
You seem to imply that there is a conspiracy of thousands of random people just to spite you.
Not only that, EHG wants to do this. If it was possible, it would already be done. It has been requested for way more often than WASD and for much longer. EHG has nothing to gain on refusing to do this (which they don’t, quite the contrary, as you can see on the quote of Mike I posted) and everything to gain by doing it.
So what is more likley? That thousands of people around the world are conspiring to spite you by denying the possibility of doing this, or that this isn’t possible and you just don’t understand it because you’re not a programmer? And that ChatGPT is incorrect in what it says (yet again)?
Not only would this be clunky and degrade performance, it would also take a long time to achieve.
It would be much simpler to just create a clone of Yolomouse. At least that one doesn’t impact performance.
EDIT: As a last argument, I’ll just point out that doing this would let them do what PoE does, which is to enable a few cursor choices and then sell cursor MTX. So if they could do this they would, because it would mean more money coming in.
