[SOLVED] How to get mouse position even if no input is detected?

[Ragetto]

For what it’s worth, the “how to get mouse position even if no input is detected” issue was not solved at all (I realized that recently: it works on mobile -which is pretty normal- but not on desktop)

The answer lies here:

I want to find the mouse coordinates during every frame of my game

To expand on what was already said and answer the original question; you need to pass the mouse coordinates to the update function to have access to it every frame. You can either make it part of the “self” script or a local variable/table to the script, the former probably being the best practice. example: function init(self) self.mouse = nil -- Declare it so you know it is part of the script, It will work without this though end function update(self, dt) if self.mouse then …