Vector from player to mouse which doesn't exceed a length of 10f?

Hi,

I have tried couple different ways to do this, but nothing works as expected. Does anyone have a simple functional solution to get a vector from player object, to mouse position, but never exceeds a distance of 10f from player?

Thanks in advance!

 

I am assuming you are in 2D for this reply. Otherwise, you will have to explain a bit more in-depth what exactly you refer to as your "mouse position".

- If you're already shooting a Ray towards the mouse position from your player, you may want to take a look at Ray.GetPoint(), which will return a point at a certain distance along the Ray from its origin.
http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Ray.GetPoint.html

- If you just want a point in space at 10F units from the center of your player object towards the mouse position, you'd do something like this:

Code (CSharp):

1. Vector2 my10FVector = myMousePointerPosition - myPlayer.transform.position; // This is the Vector from your player to your mouse position
2. my10FVector = Vector2.ClampMagnitude (my10FVector, 10F); // This'll clamp the vector to a length of 10F in world units

Of course, you'd have to calculate the world coordinates of myMousePointerPosition first. That's the part I don't know how you are handling at the time.

EDIT: This solution works in 3D as well, just replace Vector2 for Vector3.

 

Hey Razorwing,

Yeah it is a 2D sidescroller. I definitly don't want the distance to by 10f from player constantly, so the vector2.clampmagnitude seems more like what i want to do. I have however tried the clamp before, and it seemed to mess up my coordinates somehow, but i might try i again. will let you know if it works out. thanks for your response!