Place 3D plane in 2D?

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Hi everybody

I’m currently placing a 2D plane with a custom shader (circular progress bar) in front of my camera. However, I would like to place it at a 2D screen position. I tried converting screen pixel positions to 3D space but I can’t get it to work.

Any help would be appreciated

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Check out Camera.ScreenToWorldPoint() - feed it a Vector3 with the desired screen position as x/y and the desired distance to the Camera as the z.

So something like this should work: transform.position = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(new Vector3(50f, 50f, 300f));

Optionally you might want to add a transform.LookAt(Camera.main.transform); so your circle faces the camera (if it’s front is on the z axis, as it should be)

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I’ve already tried this.

And for the life of me I can’t get the %&#/! lookat script to work. The plane is just not visible.
Debugging tells me that it’s not pointing the right way. I attached a lookat script to the plane in question (The prefab have 2 sub planes)
Also ScreenToWorldPoint does not place it in the correct place?!

Thanks for your help. Any other ideas? Is there some way I can get the plane to be drawn on top of all other geometry? (besides moving it)

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Hi all. Thank you for your help.

I’ll have a look at it :slight_smile: