I have a location in the world space… A point.
I want to know its location in the component space of the skeltal mesh component.
I tried a lot of things but still can’t a method that gives the correct results.
The method I use for this is to use the inverse of the component to world matrix. The code will look something like this:
FMatrix LocalToWorldInverse = SkelatalMeshComponent->ComponentToWorld.ToMatrixWithScale().Inverse();
FVector LocalPosition = LocalToWorldInverse.TransformVector(WorldPositionVector);
Didn’t seem to work in my case.
Basically what I am trying to do is, I got weapon that is attached to the players right hand. The weapon has a socket. I want to move the players left hand to the socket location of the weapon using 2 bone IK.
The weapon socket location is in world position. I want to shift it to component location so I can use the 2 bone IK on it.
The nearest effect I could get was this…
FVector WeaponWorldLocation = GetCurrentWeapon()->Mesh3P->GetSocketLocation("LeftHandAttachmentLocation");
FVector WorldRootLocation = GetMesh()->GetBoneLocation("Root", EBoneSpaces::WorldSpace);
FVector LocalRootLocation = GetMesh()->GetBoneLocation("Root", EBoneSpaces::ComponentSpace);
FVector RootWeaponDiffecent = WorldRootLocation - WeaponWorldLocation;
FVector WeaponLocalLocation = LocalRootLocation - RootWeaponDiffecent;
return WeaponLocalLocation;
The transform that worked for me is…
FMatrix LocalToWorldInverse = SkelatalMeshComponent->ComponentToWorld.ToMatrixWithScale().Inverse();
FVector LocalPosition = LocalToWorldInverse.Transform**Position**(WorldPositionVector);