How to get origin in global coordinates

GarromOrcShaman

Hi everyone. If i get node's origin it is in local coordinates, can i get one in global coordinates ? Thanks to (pretty dope, by the way) scene system there are (most likely) no global coordinates, perhaps coordinates relative to root node instead of parent node.

TwistedTwigleg

You can use get_global_transform.origin to get a Spatial node’s position in global coordinates.

I would guess (as you said), it is based on the root node given how the scene system works.

I never really thought about how positioning works under the hood in Godot. Might be interesting to take a look at the code and see how it works :smile:

kryzmak

I agree, that it would be a more comfortable way to have a built in function for that kind of question. The workaround that I use is to go up all the way until root node and do a vector addition with every spatial parent nodes origin (transform.origin). Maybe there is already some feature request on Github, but I am not aware of it.

Edit: Ignore my post. get_global_transform() is exactly that function I was not aware of... until now. :-)