How to get the closest point of a Path relative to an object?

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I have a player, and I want the camera to be at the closest point of Path node Curve3D relative to the player origin. Could you give me a basic sample code, how can I implement this? Thanks in advance!

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1 Answer

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You can use Curve3D.get_closest_point() to get the closest point on the path.

by (16 points)

is there an easy way to get the index of the closest point?

by (19 points)

I was wondering this as well ^

by (37 points)

The curve is baked from a set of points along a Bézier curve, so get_closest_point returns a point along that curve. This point does not need to be a control point. You can try to get the closest offset and search through the control points and compare their offsets. The closest offset should be the closest control point.

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