Cursor.visible doesn't hide cursor a second time.

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Hi!
I am trying to create an fps game which hides the cursor hides in-game but appears in the pause menu. I am currently using Cursor.visible to hide the cursor every time I close the pause menu and make it appear every time I open the pause menu. Everything seems to work fine when opening the pause menu; The cursor appears and I can click and all that. But when I close the pause menu the cursor does not hide. This is my script:

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 
 public class pause : MonoBehaviour
 {
     
     public GameObject pauseMenuCanvas;
     public bool gamePaused = false;
     public bool cursorVisible = false;
     
     void Start()
     {
         pauseMenuCanvas = GameObject.Find("PauseMenu");
         pauseMenuCanvas.SetActive(false);
     }
 
 
     void Update()
     {
         if (Input.GetKeyDown("escape")) {
             gamePaused = !gamePaused;
             cursorVisible = !cursorVisible;
         }
         
         if (gamePaused == true) {
             Time.timeScale = 0.0f;
             pauseMenuCanvas.SetActive(true);
         }
         
         if (gamePaused == false) {
             Time.timeScale = 1.0f;
             pauseMenuCanvas.SetActive(false);
         }
         
         Cursor.visible = cursorVisible;
     }
 }

It may not look very well made because I am fairly new to scripting with C#.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Answer 1

This is pretty weird.

I have one suggestion, which is to avoid setting the state of the cursor and the timescale every frame. Your code could look something like this:

     void Update()
     {
         if (Input.GetKeyDown("escape")) {
             gamePaused = !gamePaused;

             if (gamePaused) {
                 Debug.Log("Pausing");
                 Time.timeScale = 0.0f;
             } else {
                 Debug.Log("Unpausing")
                 Time.timeScale = 1.0f;
             }
             pauseMenuCanvas.SetActive(gamePaused);
             Cursor.visible = gamePaused;
         }
     }

If this doesn't solve your problem, try to check if any other script is changing the cursor visibility. You could add a line to check for it, like this:

     void Update()
     {
         Debug.Log("Cursor visibility before: " + Cursor.visible);
         if (Input.GetKeyDown("escape")) {
             [...]
         }
         Debug.Log("Cursor visibility after: " + Cursor.visible);
     }

It will flood your logs, but you can simply explore them later. To reduce the amount of logs, reduce framerate, play the game frame by frame, or add a counter to only display this every few frames.

Cursor.visible doesn't hide cursor a second time.

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