is it posible to convert a Vector3 to a float value?

Hello!

Is there a way to conver a Vector3 to float value? in trying to identify the position of the center of the player (just X) and i need to convert a Vector3 to float to do that, is there a way for it?

Thank you!

 

A Vector3 is 3 floats

x, y, z

If you want any of those specific values, just access that property.

Otherwise... if you want some other 'float"? What would it be? The magnitude/length? Well access that magnitude property (it's just the sqrt of the sum of the squares of x,y,z).

But it sounds like you want the x position:

Code (csharp):

1. float xpos = transform.position.x;

(swap out 'transform' for whatever transform that you want the position of... this specifically gives you the position of the GameObject the script is attached to)

 

thank you very much!

 

tried that but dindt work

 

Show your code

 

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Vector3-magnitude.html

this turns an entire vector 3 into a float value that useable. But if you only wanted the x y or z then you ask for float to = x y or z.

 

Be aware that if you map a Vector3 to one float, there will be a lost of information. That is, if you have a function that does this mapping (could be the magnitude, some dot product, ...), you will be able to know the float value for a given Vector3 but the reverse is impossible: you will not be able to retrieve the vector 3 from a given float. Also, it's possible that different Vector3s map to the same float. For instance, all unit vectors, by definition, have a magnitude of one.

Could you tell us a bit more about what you want to do?