Not able to get real position of an object in a Canvas with "Screen Space Overlay"

Unity Engine
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I have a mobile game with a BAR on the top of the screen. The bar and it’s game objects are in canvas with “Screen Space - Overlay” mode plus a Canvas Scaler with scale mode of “Scale with Screen Size” and match equals “Match width or height”.

I am animating a game object to the position of an object inside of this and the object is going completely of the screen (really far way).

I am trying to get the position of the object using the following:

    public Vector3 getObjectPosition()
    {
        // Getting my CANVAS
        Camera cam = Camera.main;
        GameObject canvasOverlayObject = GameObject.Find("CanvasOverlay");
        Canvas canvas = canvasOverlayObject.GetComponent<Canvas>();

        //Manual scalling the CANVAS
        float canvasScaleX = Screen.width / canvasOverlayObject.GetComponent<CanvasScaler>().referenceResolution.x;
        float canvasScaleY = Screen.height / canvasOverlayObject.GetComponent<CanvasScaler>().referenceResolution.y;

        return Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(transform.position.x / canvas.scaleFactor, transform.position.y / canvas.scaleFactor, 0));
    }

Even so, the position being returned is complete of the screen. Any idea what I am doing wrong?

thanks
Nelio

2

I have found the answer. No scaling is needed in this case even in a scaled canvas.

    public Vector3 getPosition()
    {
        Camera cam = Camera.main;
        GameObject canvasOverlayObject = GameObject.Find("CanvasOverlay");
        Canvas canvas = canvasOverlayObject.GetComponent<Canvas>();

        Vector3 rawPosition = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(gameObject.transform.position);

        return rawPosition;
    }