Get GameObject's position in global screen space. How?

Quick question...

I have a User Interface I am working on. I have my Canvas set to "Screen Space - Overlay"

Within that UI, I have a GameObject nested many levels deep inside other game objects. I want to find the Vector3 transform (it's location) of that specific object in Global Screen Space.

Currency if I try and print out the objects position :

Debug.Log(myObject.gameObject.transform.position)

I am getting :

(12.3, 254.0, 0.0)

Yet this GameObject is roughly in the center of the screen. I am assuming that's it's position relative to it's parent.

How can I get it's position relative to the canvas screen (which is set to 1920x1080)

I'm hoping to get a position of something like

(950, 500, 0.0)

Thanks!!

 

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera.WorldToScreenPoint.html

Also, https://forum.unity.com/threads/ui-how-can-i-find-a-world-position-on-the-canvas.1220874/

 

Ya, I tried that before and it doesn't appear to work as expected :

this :

Debug.Log(this.timeLeftTitle.gameObject.transform.position);

prints out

(12.3, 254.0, 0.0)

And this :

Debug.Log(Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(this.timeLeftTitle.gameObject.transform.position));

prints out :

(0.0, 0.0, 0.0)

What am I missing?

 

I feel like 'WorldToScreenPoint' or anything like that is the wrong method. At the end of the day, I just want to convert local screen space to global screen space. I'm struggling to locate the answer on google... hoping someone knows the answer

 

Worst case scenario I loop through a game objects parents (recursively to the root) and calculate where it is in the global screen space... but there must be a method already provided to do this. I can't seem to find the answer anywhere

 

I don't think it's possible. Sorry

 

this is what I did and it seems to work

public Vector3 GameObjectPosition;

private void FixedUpdate()

{

GameObjectPosition = Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(transform.position);

}

hope this helps

 

Bro, I feel you. Could you finish your worst-case scenario method?
I'm also that far to write a recursive method to find position, but am really afraid of all the unknwos lurking doing that.

 

Btw. in most cases

Camera.main.WorldToScreenPoint(transform.position);

is fine. However, in some constellations of pivots and/or anchors it seems to produce crap, just like

transform.InverseTransformPoint(origin.position)