Tag: InputSystem

All the articles with the tag "InputSystem".

• Some Functions Read z as a Distance and Others Throw It Away

  14 Oct, 2026

  Code I clipped while trying to hide the cursor at the center of the screen in an FPS and raycast from that point to find where a shot lands. The original calls z a 'fix that puts the axis in camera terms'; the docs call it 'the distance of the resulting plane from the camera'. It's not a fix, it's a choice — and locking the cursor removes the need to read the value at all.

• What Decides the Point to Look At Is the Plane, Not the Ray

  13 Oct, 2026

  Short code for facing the mouse, clipped while looking for how to do top-down controls. The method is right, but the plane sits at the origin and the height gets patched in separately. Put the plane at the object's position and that patch disappears.