Covert screen coordinates to World's x and y

[max123]

Hi,

I've searched the forum, but most questions and answers that I found relate to the reverse: convert World to Screed coordinates. 
The reason I need this is to launch a projectile in the direction of mouse coordinates when a user clicks on a screen. I tried the ray picking approach, but 1) it's too cumbersome and it didn't work, and 2) there's nothing to pick with a ray!

I wonder if anyone here had the same issue and managed to find a solution.

Cheers!

[RaananW]

Well, you are clicking in a 2D space, what would you expect to get?  let's say your camera is parallel to the floor, pointer straight at the z axis. Let's say we have y (which is 0) and x (which is also 0). What would you expect Z to be?

Picking is your friend (which is rather straight-forward). You will need to add a picking mesh (a plane, for example) that will transform your single click to 3d coordinates according to your definition. This would be the simplest way.

[max123]

@RaananW, how would you deal with camera's position/rotation in this case? Can you provide an example? Even pseudo-code will do  

[RaananW]

Why pseudo, when you can get the real thing:

 

http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#ALAAX

wall is your collision wall, I set it's material's alpha to be 0.3 (so you will see where it is). the pick result is the position in the world that you clicked on. notice that the wall's parent is the camera, and that it is 20 units away from it, so this would be your z axis (local coordinates).

 

[max123]

You're da man, @RaananW! Will give it a try. 

[max123]

@RaananW, thanks again, dude! This worked like a dream