Flexible Tooltip - Hover GUI or Collider with Cursors & Popups

📄 Official Documentation

Flexible Tooltip is a powerful, customizable solution for displaying contextual UI elements and dynamic cursor states across any Unity project. Whether you're building inventory UIs, strategy games, interactive tutorials, or gamepad-driven experiences, this system gives you complete control over tooltip behavior, cursor appearances, and positioning — all while staying cleanly decoupled from your game logic.

✨ Key Features:

No coding is required for built-in functionality and use of provided prefabs!

🆕 Contextual Hover Cursor Module (New!)

• Dynamic Swapping: Automatically swap the cursor based on what the player is pointing at, supporting both 3D world colliders (via raycasts) and UI elements (via HoverObject focus).
• Hardware & Virtual Pointers: Out-of-the-box support for native OS hardware cursors (Cursor.SetCursor) and Canvas-driven virtual on-screen cursors. Perfect for mouse, keyboard, or gamepads!
• Per-Object Overrides: Drop a Cursor Hover Override component onto any interactable to instantly assign a custom pointer style.
• Visual Asset Workflows: Dedicated ScriptableObject appearance assets featuring interactive hotspot previews directly inside the Unity Inspector.
• Runtime Resizing: Built-in options to dynamically upscale or downscale cursors at runtime.

🧩 Modular & Extensible Architecture

• Use or extend the core ATooltipUI and ATooltipInformation classes to support any tooltip content: text, sprites, dynamic values, and more.
• Refresh open tooltip content on the fly while it's visible using UpdateIfShowing().
• Plug in custom cursor position providers to support mouse, gamepad, or touch.
• Easily assign different tooltip styles or prefabs for different objects or contexts.

🖱️ Smart Display Behavior

• Follow cursor, stick to static positions, or require cursor to be stationary before showing.
• Supports both global delay and per-tooltip delays for fine-tuned UX.
• Tooltips continue to work while time is paused.
• Use the included Cursor-None texture asset to cleanly hide the OS cursor while keeping backend hover detection functional.

🎯 Positioning & Overflow Handling

• Automatically flip alignment when a tooltip would overflow the screen.
• Configure horizontal and vertical alignment, offsets, and screen clamping.
• Optional padding and distance settings keep tooltips clean and readable.

🎨 Visual Customization

• Fully compatible with TextMeshPro and Unity UI (Required for provided Presets).
• Use Unity’s layout groups or animate with your own transitions.
• Animate tooltips with smooth movement or snapping using customizable animation controllers.

📦 Built for Flexibility

• Works with all: Screen Space (Overlay or Camera) and World Space canvases.
• Fully compatible with both the Legacy Input Manager and the New Input System package.
• All tooltip and cursor components are extensible and source-based. No black boxes.
• Can show one or more tooltips, even within a tooltip.

🛠 Ideal For

• Inventory systems and item hovers
• Context-aware mouse pointer configurations
• Strategy and simulation games
• Gamepad-driven virtual controller setups
• Tutorial systems with dynamic prompts
• In-game UI overlays with contextual info
• Developer tools or debug visualizations

💼 What's Included

• Full C# source code – clean, extensible, no DLLs
• Ready-to-Use Prefabs: Drop the Hardware Cursor Manager or Virtual Cursor Manager straight into your scene.
• Multiple Demo Scenes: Pre-configured scenes for Hardware cursors, New Input System layouts, and Virtual controller setups.
• Customizable base components for tooltips, data, animation, and layout
• Advanced Editor inspectors with multi-object editing and raycast detection guidance.
• Support for pooled and dynamically instantiated tooltip objects.

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