How to Make A Simple Tooltip in Unity Tutorial

[@IndicIndieGameDev]

Thanks for a simple and clean implementation.
Unlike some other popular unity devs that take you on a rabbit hole of "custom components > needs download > sign up with email to download > news letters" vicious cycle.

[@helciowagner6101]

Congratulations! Very straight to the point. I've seen other tutorials that are too long because they spend too much time explaining how to make a fancy tooltip box. I prefer this one.

[@deadbroadcastpc]

Damn dude loving the flow of videos coming out, great work

[@danieller213]

Extremely useful, easy to follow, and easy to modify for any project. Thanks for this!

[@ibelonghere]

This is excellent! So many uses, and gives the game a way to interact with the player. Thank you.

[@lalitsharma3137]

For those of you trying to use this on a Button instead of a GameObject the Tooltip Script would be different as shown below.
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.EventSystems;
public class Tooltip : MonoBehaviour, IPointerEnterHandler, IPointerExitHandler
{
public string message;
//=======================================For GameObjects==================
/*private void OnMouseEnter()
{
TooltipManager._instance.SetandShowToolTip(message);
}
private void OnMouseExit()
{
TooltipManager._instance.HideToolTip();
}*/
//=======================================For Buttons=========================
public void OnPointerEnter(PointerEventData pointerEventData)
{
TooltipManager._instance.SetandShowToolTip(message);
}
public void OnPointerExit(PointerEventData pointerEventData)
{
TooltipManager._instance.HideToolTip();
}
}
// This works 100%. Just set the Pivot correctly.

[@itsPatticatti]

YOU ARE THE GOAT

[@atnguyenhuu2730]

Thanks!!!!

[@its_nuked]

Thank you! We were just dealing with this with a friend, LIFESAVER!!!!
I'm assuming this is because pointer is used for UI and mouse for game objects? ;D

[@lalitsharma3137]

@@itsPatticatti Thanks for that. 🇮🇳☺️😇

[@yanderezaf]

thank you so much for this tuto and the easy explanation.

[@itsPatticatti]

IMPORTANT: if your tooltip is flickering, turn off "Raycast Target" under "Image" of your Tooltip parent. Don't need to change the pivot at all.

[@pedropc5824]

Thanks!

[@atnguyenhuu2730]

I fixed my problem Thank u so much!!!

[@lightningcode1136]

I may have to use this someday..

[@Diertstarr]

I just spend hours trying to figure this out: the coin is a gameObject - NOT A UI ELEMENT. So I got that to work, but having trouble with figuring out how to tool tip the UI.
Thank anyhow.

[@cataend]

Amazing tutorial

[@eileeng2492]

Hey this seems doable.
Gonna try it

[@revmatch6r]

Finally a way to label all my spikey bois

[@amandacollins7392]

BMO, impressive Tooltip box 😏

[@康凯-s9v]

Thank you for your tutorial. And I have a question. As I known transform.position is world space position, Input.mousePosition is screen space position. Why transform.position = mousePosition can work well？ thanks again.

[@FazzoHD]

How would you make this work for button objects as well?

[@JessicaUresti01]

Yes I need this.

[@ooOSp4wNOoo]

Just add a boxCollider and a rigidbody... Dont forget to resize the BoxCollider

[@k1rzen]

thank you so much

[@tanawatmunmueang7924]

Thank you

[@kedrickkarasek6736]

I tried clicking and dragging the pivot to the corner and it doesnt grab

[@futurist1399]

on the top left of your scene window change Center to Pivot

[@Mikes-Code]

Thanks.

how can you just drag the pivot away? i cant seem to do that

[@LoganGarnham]

would this work in a 3D game?

[@MythicBeanProductions]

Any idea how to do this with visual scripting? I'm fairly new to this and have a hard time understanding the normal syntax layout of C#. I kind of know how to translate over but it's still pretty difficult and I can't figure this out

[@hawkfish88]

I didn't need a rigidbody component for this to work.

[@makeytgreatagain6256]

How do i stop the stuttering on the tooltip?

[@Slort_]

For anyone having this problem: Just move the pivot point (the blue circle) of the panel a little outside the box.

[@theepicraccoon4589]

@@Slort_ thank you

[@Imperial_Dynamics]

The shuttering is caused when the mouse pointer is above the tooltipbox. I solved it by setting my pivot to: -0.1, -0.3

[@itsPatticatti]

For anyone having this problem, turn off raycast target under image in your tooltip parent 100% works, changing the pivot point is just brute forcing it and wont change the fact that ur tooltip parent will still trigger the event.

[@tofaani]

👍💎💎💎

[@markn327]

this didnt work for me.
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using TMPro;
public class toolTipManager : MonoBehaviour
{
public static toolTipManager _instance;
public TextMeshProUGUI textComponent;
private void Awake()
{
if (_instance != null && _instance != this)
{
Destroy(this.gameObject);
}
else
{
_instance = this;
}
}
void Start()
{
Cursor.visible = true;
gameObject.SetActive(false);
}
void Update()
{
transform.position = Input.mousePosition;
}
public void SetAndShowToolTip(string message)
{
gameObject.SetActive(true);
textComponent.text = message;
}
public void HideToolTip()
{
gameObject.SetActive(false);
textComponent.text = string.Empty;
}
}
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class toolTip : MonoBehaviour
{
public string message;
private void OnMouseEnter()
{
toolTipManager._instance.SetAndShowToolTip(message);
}
private void OnMouseExit()
{
toolTipManager._instance.HideToolTip();
}
}

[@markn327]

ok so i figured out why this isnt working for me. The problem is that im looking to make a tool tip for a button on my ui canvas and not a tool tip for a game object in the world position. any thoughts on how to do that?

[@alliion_x]

@@markn327 hi, did you resolve this problem?

[@galerez4194]

@@alliion_x Hi, you can use IPointerEnter & IPointerExit interfaces (need to add using UnityEngine.EventSystems)

[@Imperial_Dynamics]

@@markn327 public class Tooltip : MonoBehaviour, IPointerEnterHandler, IPointerExitHandler
{
public string message;
public void OnPointerEnter(PointerEventData pointerEventData)
{
TooltipManager.instance.SetAndShowTooltip(message);
}
public void OnPointerExit(PointerEventData pointerEventData)
{
TooltipManager.instance.HideTooltip();
}
}