For every new project I open I find myself going through same process of cutting/pasting a Blueprint template just so I can check my viewport camera’s xyz world position (for debugging purposes).
Is there a basic stats/debug option somewhere in editor that can be turned on to display current viewport camera’s xyz coordinate?
Hey ,
I’m not currently aware of any way to get world position of Viewport camera. It’s not an Actor, so I don’t think it can be referenced as such through Editor.
You can set Bookmarks, however. Bookmarks remember location and rotation of camera. To create a Bookmark, press Ctrl + a number 1-0. Pressing that number will return camera to that Bookmark.
You can also create a Camera in position of Viewport camera by using Viewports Options dropdown in upper-left corner and selecting Create Camera Here.
There’s some more information on Viewport Options here:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/UI/LevelEditor/Viewports/ViewportOptions/index.html
Hope that helps!
Thanks .
My mistake — when I refer to camera I actually mean player_controller/character_controller (character.h). Not sure if that makes a difference to your answer.
Anyway, I think my solution is to put my DrawText->dump.xyz.coords.to.screen graph template into globally accessible Blueprint library. That way I should be able to conveniently drag it into any project.
It’s a pity that newlines don’t work in DrawText. It would make my stats & debugging DrawText node graphs much simpler/cleaner.
How F*CK is it possible that it is so hard to get camera position in unreal?! this is ridiculous !
I was looking for an unrelated post but I figured since there was no answer on this, I would throw one in for future people. It’s possible this was added in a more recent version and wasn’t present in 2017, but who knows.
GetPlayerCameraManager has all info you need for camera position and more.
You can also GetPlayerController->GetViewTarget for some additional information, though that will probably grab actor (e.g. Player Pawn)
Hope this helps someone else in future.
