Return position in sky relative to player cursor

[sizraide 4]

Hello, I'm using screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5].

 

But it only returns the position on landscape.

 

I'm wondering how do I retrieve the position of what the player is looking at if it's in the sky?

But only for 100 meters in distance. So for example, if player is looking at sky. Get the position of 100 meters distance relative to the players eye view.

Because I'm trying to create a cutscene but the player is unfortunately looking at the sky in this scene. And I want to camera to eventually move into the players perspective for a smooth camera to player transition

 

EDIT: The player is not looking at any object in the sky, just to clarify.

_camera camPrepareFov 0.24;
_camera camPreparePos [9212.05, 19240.1, 1.26343];
_camera camPrepareFocus [22.29, 1];
_camera camPrepareTarget getPosATL camera_tents;
_camera camCommitPrepared 0;

_camera camSetFocus [-1, -1];
_camera camPrepareFOV getObjectFOV player;
_camera camPrepareTarget screenToWorld [0.5, 0.5] // Trying to change this position

_camera camPreparePos ASLToAGL eyePos player; // Move camera position into players eye position
_camera camCommitPrepared 13;

 

[_foley 192]

Basically, you can take eye position of the player and add eyeDirection to it, multiplied by the distance (100m in your case). It goes like this:

_positionInSky = (eyePos player) vectorAdd ((eyeDirection player) vectorMultiply 100);

This position will be in PositionASL format, so you might need to also add ASLToAGL like in your script.

[sarogahtyp 1109]

Position format of eyepos player is ASL. You probably want to convert it to AGL using ASLToAGL.

[sizraide 4]

2 hours ago, _foley said:

Basically, you can take eye position of the player and add eyeDirection to it, multiplied by the distance (100m in your case). It goes like this:

_positionInSky = (eyePos player) vectorAdd ((eyeDirection player) vectorMultiply 100);

 

This position will be in PositionASL format, so you might need to also add ASLToAGL like in your script.

It works! I appreciate your help.