# Screen xy to world coordinates

**URL:** <https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/screen-xy-to-world-coordinates/5045>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** documentation, tutorial\
**Created:** [August 12, 2019, 8:26am UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/screen-xy-to-world-coordinates/5045 "2019-08-12T08:26:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/screen-xy-to-world-coordinates/5045/3 "2019-08-12T16:21:44Z")

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> [@Deltakosh](#):
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> BABYLON.Vector3.Unproject( mousePosition, engine.getRenderWidth(), engine.getRenderHeight(), BABYLON.Matrix.Identity(), scene.getViewMatrix(), scene.getProjectionMatrix());

Thank you @Deltakosh!: )

the scenario is to set the position of a mesh.  
Before I used the pickedPoint with this.scene.pick(this.scene.pointerX, this.scene.pointerY)

Does using Vector.Unproject way give the same results?

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