World position of a Text inside a canvas

Unity Engine
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Hi everybody,

I would like to know how to get the world position of a text component if it is possible. The point shown in the image (Ashampoo® Web Upload). The canvas is set to world space.

Thanks a lot!

Jymmy097

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I think lots of people would say to use the RectTransform.anchoredPosition3D property. However I came to the forum today because I’m trying to get the world position of a UI object that is using the World Space canvas and I’m getting crazy values that I can’t use for world space positioning. Hopefully someone here knows what up.

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No time to test but RectTransform is a Transform which means it has TransformPoint method

Try something like:

text.transform.TransformPoint(Vector3.zero);
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I found some time to test this.

transform.position and transform.TransformPoint(Vector3.zero) work same and return correct result**.**

GetComponent().anchoredPosition3D returns position relative to anchors (which is local position, not world position and depends on position of anchors).

So just use transform.position.

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Thanks. I will use it.

LG