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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/sinbad/statuses/113878260179056320">The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 23:59:13 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@sinbad" title="sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/99440-48-20240612094432.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="The Seven Voyages Of Steve" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">The Seven Voyages Of Steve</a></section><article><p>Most of the advice you'll find online about doing camera calculations like "how do I get a ray from the camera" in <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/unrealengine" rel="tag">#unrealengine</a> are subtly wrong. Here's a simple guide on how to do it right: <a href="https://www.stevestreeting.com/2025/01/23/doing-unreal-camera-calculations-right/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.stevestreeting.com/2025/01/23/doing-unreal-camera-calculations-right/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4432820#notice-8672633">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-01-23T23:59:13+09:00" title="Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 23:59:13 JST">about 4 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@sinbad/113878260179056320" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.gamedev.place via ActivityPub">mastodon.gamedev.place</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@sinbad/113878260179056320">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: www.stevestreeting.com</div><h5><a href="https://www.stevestreeting.com/2025/01/23/doing-unreal-camera-calculations-right/">Doing Unreal Camera Calculations Right</a></h5><div> from <span>@</span></div></header><div>What’s The Problem? Sometimes you want to do some calculations based on the current view, such as a ray/plane intersection to figure out where the player is looking. A lot of information online will immediately tell you to “get the camera component and…”.
⛔ NO! ⛔
If you do this you’ll get some weird edge cases where the results that gives you are just plain wrong. The transform of the camera component on your pawn is NOT the current player view; even when it’s the camera you’re posessing right now.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 23:59:13 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve
Most of the advice you'll find online about doing camera calculations like "how do I get a ray from the camera" in #unrealengine are subtly wrong. Here's a simple guide on how to do it right: https://www.stevestreeting.com/2025/01/23/doing-unreal-camera-calculations-right/
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  What’s The Problem? Sometimes you want to do some calculations based on the current view, such as a ray/plane intersection to figure out where the player is looking. A lot of information online will immediately tell you to “get the camera component and…”. ⛔ NO! ⛔ If you do this you’ll get some weird edge cases where the results that gives you are just plain wrong. The transform of the camera component on your pawn is NOT the current player view; even when it’s the camera you’re posessing right now.

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