Alternatives to 'computeWorldPosition'

I'm looking to try optimizing my game a bit, and I noticed that I use 'computeWorldPosition' quite a bit.

Apparently it's quite resource intensive, and Unity has suggested using 'TransformObjectToWorld' instead. The issue, is that I'm not entirely sure how to use TransformObjectToWorld? I couldn't really find any documentation on it either. I've tried to apply the 4x4matrix of TransformObjectToWorld to a Vector3, but it always seems to be a bit off?

Any help with this would be appreciated, and if I missed something in the documentation please link it for me!

 

The same issue.
I can convert world points to local points, window points to world points, world points to window points, get world position and get local position, but can not convert local position to world position.
Is there no way to reach this with Tiny?

 

Not sure if it would be better, but you could write your own function to calculate the world position, since the world position from an entity is basically recursively the world position of its parent added to its own (local) position.

 

This is how I'm doing it right now:

Code (JavaScript):

1.  
2. public static ToGlobalPosition(world: ut.World, entity: ut.Entity):Vector3 {
3.  
4.             let node = world.getComponentData(entity, ut.Core2D.TransformNode);
5.             let transform = world.getComponentData(entity, ut.Core2D.TransformLocalPosition);
6.  
7.             let worldpos = transform.position;
8.  
9.             let parent = node.parent;
10.             while(!parent.isNone()) {
11.                 let parentTransform = world.getComponentData(parent, ut.Core2D.TransformLocalPosition);
12.                 worldpos = parentTransform.position.add(worldpos);
13.  
14.                 parent = world.getComponentData(parent, ut.Core2D.TransformNode).parent;
15.             }
16.  
17.             return worldpos;
18. }

Not sure if this is better for performance however

 

Thank you very much, elroydolleman_unity!
computeWorldPosition having problems with calculating position for hierarchy with UI layouts, your solution do not have such issue, it just works.
Thank you again!

 

Code (CSharp):

1. const transformMatrix = world.getComponentData(entity, TransformObjectToWorld).matrix
2. const pos = new Vector3().applyMatrix4(transformMatrix)