bevy_mouse_tracking_plugin

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This crate aims to make mouse tracking both effortless and explicit. Tracking is opt-in and handled opaquely by this plugin.

The mouse can be tracked on a per-camera basis by querying for tracking components. Additionally, a global resource is maintained that tracks the main camera, if applicable.

Basics

use bevy::prelude::*;
use bevy_mouse_tracking_plugin::prelude::*;

// First, add the plugin to your `App`.

App::new()
    .add_plugins((DefaultPlugins, MousePosPlugin))
    .add_systems(Startup, setup)
    .add_systems(Update, dbg_mouse)
    // ...


fn setup(mut commands: Commands) {
    commands
        // Spawn a camera bundle
        .spawn(Camera2dBundle::default())
        // Opt in to mouse tracking.
        // `InitMouseTracking` is a command that adds the mouse tracking
        // component to the camera with a correct initial value.
        .add(InitMouseTracking);
}

// Now, we can track the mouse position by querying for it.

use bevy_mouse_tracking_plugin::MousePos;

fn dbg_mouse(mouse: Query<&MousePos>) {
    // This will print the screen-space location of the mouse on every frame.
    eprintln!("{}", *mouse.single());
    // If we did `mouse.iter()` instead, this will naturally work for multiple cameras.
}

Having to call Query::single is a bit annoying, and potentially error-prone. Instead, we can specify a main camera, which the plugin will treat specially.

use bevy_mouse_tracking_plugin::MainCamera;

fn setup(mut commands: Commands) {
    commands
        // Spawn a camera with tracking.
        .spawn(Camera2dBundle::default())
        .add(InitMouseTracking)
        // Add a component to mark it as the main camera.
        .insert(MainCamera);
}

// Now that we've specified the main camera, we can get the mouse position using a global resource.

fn dbg_mouse(mouse: Res<MousePos>) {
    // This will print the screen-space location of the mouse on every frame.
    eprintln!("{}", *mouse);
}

World-space

We can do better than just screen-space: this crate supports automatic transformation to world-space coordinates via [MousePosWorld] -- this is can be accessed as either a component or a resource.

use bevy_mouse_tracking_plugin::MousePosWorld;

fn setup(mut commands: Commands) {
    commands
        .spawn(Camera2dBundle::default())
        // Opt in to world-space mouse tracking.
        // This will automatically opt into screen-space tracking.
        .add(InitWorldTracking)
        // ...
}

// Getting the world-space position using a query.
fn dbg_world_single(mouse: Query<&MousePosWorld>) {
    // This will print the world-space position of the mouse on every frame.
    eprintln!("{}", *mouse.single());
}

// Getting it using the resource.
fn dbg_world_res(mouse: Res<MousePosWorld>) {
    eprintln!("{}", *mouse);
}

Note that this is only supported for two-dimensional, orthographic cameras, but pull requests for 3D support are welcome!

If you do not specify a [MainCamera], the [MousePos] and [MousePosWorld] resources will still exist, but they will always be zero.

Mouse motion

This crate supports a resource that tracks mouse motion, via [MouseMotionPlugin]. The motion can be accessed from any system in a [MouseMotion] resource.

Crate name

As a final aside: the name of this crate is intentionally verbose, since it is very likely that this crate will eventually be made redundant by future updates to Bevy.
I recommend renaming the crate in your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
mouse_tracking = { package = "bevy_mouse_tracking_plugin", version = "..." }

License: MIT