Getting mouse position in unity

Question

I\'m trying to move a object to the mouse position. But it\'s giving me large x value like 300 but at that place the pre placed object\'s x position is -4.

Answer 1

Input.mousePosition will give you the position of the mouse on screen (pixels). You need to convert those pixels to the world units using Camera.ScreenToWorldPoint().

You can follow this link to learn how to drag a 3d object with the mouse or you can copy this code to move an object from the current position to the mouse position.

 //the object to move
public Transform objectToMove;

 void Update()
 {
     Vector3 mouse = Input.mousePosition;
     Ray castPoint = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(mouse);
     RaycastHit hit;
     if (Physics.Raycast(castPoint, out hit, Mathf.Infinity))
     {
         objectToMove.transform.position = hit.point;
     }
 }