Like this, now you will have only the X,Y distance of the vector from the calculation then you can hook that into the “get vector length” node and it won’t add the “Z” axis
Thank you so much for that, but I’ve got another strange issue.
Can you spot what I’m doing wrong here, I’m using the following in my level bp as a simple test to output player position (G press gives value of 315.334) and trigger 1 position (Z press gives value of 117.046), if I subtract both I get 198.288 but when I press X to give me the worked distance calculation I get 267.054???
What am I doing wrong here?
what you show in the picture would in theory be giving you the vector length from the trigger to the world origin, and the player to world origin. thats not what you want. the x input one would be from the player to the trigger. if you want to get the location of something then that will be a vector value, the length is just how long the line is from one point to another. imagine you were plotting a graph in the x and y scale. the x 2 y 5 value would be the location, then if you drew a line from that point to the x0 y0 point, the length of the line would be the vector length.
when you press x your about 300 units from the triggers center right? if so then everything is working as intended.
It’s “vector” math, not “regular math”. Vector length is exactly what you think it is, the distance from the origin point (0,0,0) to the vector point in 3D space (0,5,0) would give you a vector length of 5 units. The vector (5,0,0) is also “5 units”. But subtracting vector 1 from vector 2 does not give you “0 units”. It isn’t 5-5 = 0. It is (vector 1) - (vector 2) = (vector 3) which is the vector that points from vector 2 towards vector 1 in 3D space. Which has a length of ~7 if I did my math correctly.
i concur with your math lol its just over 7
Thanks guys much appreciated
Ah ok I always was bad at maths