[ Solved ] Display transform.position.y in a Text element.

Unity Engine
1

Hello,

I’m trying to display the y position of my OVRCameraRig in a Text object for debugging purpose.
I can get the y value ( debug.log display it correctly ), but impossible to display it inside my text element…

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class ForForum : MonoBehaviour
{
    public Text debugText;
    public float cameraHeight = 1.75f;
    public Transform realCameraHeight;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        debugText = GameObject.Find("debugText").GetComponent<Text>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        debugText.text = "realCameraHeight = " + realCameraHeight.position.y.ToString();
        Debug.Log("realCameraHeight = " + realCameraHeight.position.y.ToString());
    }
}

So, I get this in my console : “realCameraHeight = 1.75”
But this on my text element : “realCameraHeight =”

What am I missing?

2

Your code is correct. My guess is that your Text element is too short.

3

@JoeStrout Thanks for giving my problem a try.
I checked the size of the text container and it should not be the problem.
The container is larger than the text itself.

May the OVRCameraRig as already a bit of script messing with the y value?

What’s weird is that when I set cameraHeight = 0, the 0 appears correctly in my text element…

4

It can’t be anything messing with the Y value. realCameraHeight.position.y is a float, so there is no way that realCameraHeight.position.y.ToString() can produce a blank or empty string.

Run the game, and then use the Inspector to inspect your Text element. What do you see in its text property?

5

Well,
now it display correctly the value in the text element & the inspector pan… weird.
I changed things in my scripts but they were not supposed to be related to this…

Weird weird weird.

Now this is working, I will probably create an other thread for asking about my OVRCameraRigh’s y which for a given value seems to be twice higher when playing the apk in my go…

Thanks @JoeStrout !