Camera.forward_vector()

[shak2]

Add a Camera.foward_vector()

The whole point of engines is abstraction and encapsulation. If I need a 3 year mathmatics degree to calculate the forward vector of a camera in Godot then something has gone wrong.

Give me a Camera.forward_vector() please!

(This should be the vector of the direction the camera is pointing towards. I know about basis - see 3 year mathmatics degree comment above. And before you ask, they don't teach shearing vectors in 10th grade, so can I just get a camera.forward_vector() and end this once and for all thanks!). If this is too hard to create then how am I as a civilian, expected to calculate this?!?

[AThousandShips]

If I need a 3 year mathmatics degree to calculate the forward vector of a camera in Godot then something has gone wrong.

You dont, you just need basic geometry of the engine, like so:

-my_camera.global_basis.z

Or

my_camera.global_basis * Vector3.FORWARD

Or if you want local:

-my_camera.basis.z

Or

my_camera.basis * Vector3.FORWARD

It's also in the documentation here

[Calinou]

It's also in the documentation here

I wonder if this warrants a note in the Camera3D class description too (or perhaps Node3D), considering how commonly this is needed.

[AThousandShips]

There is information on it in Transform3D, I'm not sure we should duplicate things everywhere and Transform3D is clearly visible as a link in Node3D