How would I find a point in front of my cam?

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How exactly can I find a point directly in front of and at any given distance from my main cam? For example, I'm looking for a point that's exactly 2 units away from my main camera in the direction that it's currently facing. Are there any functions that could help with this?

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Answer by aldonaletto · Nov 28, 2011 at 05:45 AM

That's a job for ViewportToWorldPoint: pass to it the vector (0.5, 0.5, distanceFromCamera), where 0.5, 0.5 means the center of the screen:

  // returns a point exactly 2 meters in front of the camera:
  var point = Camera.main.ViewportToWorldPoint(Vector3(0.5, 0.5, 2.0));

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Primo_Rexus · Nov 28, 2011 at 03:16 PM 0

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Aha, that did the trick -- thanks!

aldonaletto · Nov 28, 2011 at 09:35 PM 0

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Oops! I forgot the closing parenthesis! Answer is fixed now.

Ghosthowl · Jun 28, 2014 at 08:32 AM 0

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Thanks @aldonaletto one again you saved me. This worked perfectly for getting an aimpoint.

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Answer by triangle4studios · Sep 18, 2020 at 11:51 PM

A much needed correction.

 var point = Camera.main.ViewportToWorldPoint(new Vector3(0.5f, 0.5f, 2.0f));

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Magso · Sep 18, 2020 at 11:58 PM 1

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That's because of C#, the answer given is for UnityScript.

How would I find a point in front of my cam?

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