How to align widget element to screen space?

[MadPolygon]

Hi,

I have following widget. I am getting a instance of a enemy and I would like to move the portion of the umg to the position of the enemy in the world but to screen space.

Unfortunately, I cant seem to align it. I have tried dividing by screenwidth/2 and everything but it always is off and weirdly positioned. I also cannot make sense whne moving it around the canvas. It says 1280x720 but if I move the debug box actually to that location in the widget, its way out of the canvas zone too.

anyway, this is how i am converting to screen space:

and this is the result (note that the capsule is supposed to be the enemy where it should overlay):

(i am using set render translation to move the entire group)

[Extrone (Arjun Subhash)]

You can use Widget Components to display widgets in 3D view either in World Space or Screen Space

Widget Components In Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.0 Documentation | Epic...

Add a Widget Component to your Enemy Blueprint, Set Draw Space to Screen and set Widget Class to the widget you want to display.

[MadPolygon]

Would be cool to know how one could align individual elements within a widget, this should ideally be moved between enemies and would be great if i can reuse one and move it but I guess trying out the widgets in the bps is an option too.
Would need refactoring on my end tho

[Extrone (Arjun Subhash)]

@MadPolygon

this should ideally be moved between enemies and would be great if i can reuse one and move it

Well, you could create a separate actor with just the widget component, then move that actor between the enemies.

@MadPolygon

Would be cool to know how one could align individual elements within a widget

I think (I’m not sure) it’s due to the Anchors being centered, try resetting the Anchors to top left.

Or it’s possibly because you’re using render translation instead of SlotAsCanvasSlot → SetPosition.

Just tried this, seems to work.

[MadPolygon]

Thanks for the help so far brother, will try tomorrow and let you know

[MadPolygon]

hi there, your solution works in my end. It seems the main issue was that I had set the anchor in the middle of the screen. Once I had put the anchor to the top left it works. I am wondering though what calculations I would need to do to get the correct position once I put an anchor anywhere. Set the difference of the positions?
Anyway, thank you for your help Arjun!