Why did you not want to get Camera Position in the crosshair deprojection?

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#1

Ben, Ben, Ben… you dirty little rapscallion!

When we’re learning to deproject, you tell me that the deprojection returns the camera position, just throw it away, we justwant the unit vector. So i go along my merry way thinking “Oh, we won’t need that!”

Well then we perform the line trace…And come to find out, I need that camera position!!!

Seriously though Ben, I did figure out before watching your solution that I needed the camera position. However, unlike your PlayerCameraManager() approach, I set up a second out parameter from my deprojection method, so that I get both the camera position and unit vector in tha same call… So my question, is there a reason NOT to do this (i.e. speed, efficiency, what-have-you) or is it just your personal preference on avoiding out parameters?

was going to share my solution, but the “formatted text” option seems to be having trouble with that…

#2

Thanks for asking, I think I was just avoiding smelly our parameters.

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#3

Have to agree to this. I’d rather have the one function with ~15 lines, than 3 functions. I guess this is personal preference, but unless we’d use the other functions somewhere else, there is no need to extract them imo.

Here is my one-function bool ATankPlayerController::GetSightRayHitLocation(FVector& HitLocation) const : https://gist.github.com/mBeierl/d110bc0383c191aae39742b5fe80aa72

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#4

I don’t mind three functions vs 1 longer one, as this supports abstraction and encapsulation in my opinion. But I’m comfortable enough reading my own code that I prefer the out parameters than adding an extra step.

3 functions ALSO helps later on. Once you’ve left this logic alone for a while and finish, then cone back and decide “oh, I want to add this functionality”, it’s easier to break into a tiny methods to add steps instead of working about without worrying about messing things up wile editting your larger functions

#5

I agree, @ben has kinda overboard with functions in this section IMO. Kinda makes it less readable.

#6

I may have done a little ;-). Those methods will be fleshed-out though, it’s mainly a symptom of the fact I’m working to a prototype. I could do it the other way and only factor-out when needed.

#7

Well you certainly are more organized. When I’m working on a prototype, things get a lot messier :wink:

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