hi, I’m working on a scaling by a point of reference feature, and I’m trying to show a text near the cursor that calculates the distance between a mesh and the pointer current position in the scene, now the thing is is that I can’t figure out to get a vector3 coordinates from a “onPointerMoveObserva…

Hey sorry for the late response but I actually looked at your link and after a bit of researching I managed to make it work!.. with a bit of a problem, while the text now shows and the functionality works at intended I can’t use any of the other GUI elements. this is my current PG https://playgroun…

Adding @DarraghBurke for the GUI

Hello just checking in, are you still having issues? @TUNRAX

Hello @carolhmj , back then when I had the issue I found someone that made the tracking of the mouse pointer by tracking the X and Y coordinates of the mouse on a “runRenderLoop()”, this solved my problem at the time but still it was kinda rough on the edges and a few problems arise when I wanted to …

There are quite a few options to get the coordinates under the mouse pointer, one way could be doing picking on an invisible plane: Cursor showing coordinates | Babylon.js Playground (babylonjs.com) and then positioning a GUI in scene according to the scene pointerX and pointerY :smiley: hope this h…

How do you get the vector3 Coordinates of a mouse hover?

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sebavan April 29, 2022, 6:38pm 2

This might help: Screen xy to world coordinates - #9 by 16ar

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How do you get the vector3 Coordinates of a mouse hover?

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