can't remember which node but Mr Munch (?) geometry tools has a tool that can 
read the concatenated position of an object. 

apologies if his name is wrong but he mentioned this in a similar ish thread a 
while ago. 


Howard

On 18 Sep 2013, at 02:45, Michael Garrett <[email protected]> wrote:

> Normally I would say you can use the world_matrix knob of the TransformGeo to 
> get the concatenated position (using cels 3, 7 and 11) but it depends on 
> whether the geometry itself already has a baked in offset or not - meaning is 
> it reading in at the origin or not. 
> 
> If it's not animated and you need that offset value in world space, you could 
> easily snap an Axis to a vertex of the geometry that you want to be the 
> Camera focal point, then parent another Axis that represents the TransformGeo 
> and read off the concatenated transform from the child Axis world_matrix 
> knob. You would then use the expression Olivier posted to get the distance.
> 
> 
> On 17 September 2013 19:41, Gustaf Nilsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yes, but that is not possible when you have a transformgeo-node connected to 
>> the geometry as there is no way (?) of getting its world coordinates.
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Olivier Lavenant 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> You can use the expression : sqrt[(Xa-Xb)²+(Ya-Yb)²+(Za-Zb)²]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2013/9/17 Gustaf Nilsson <[email protected]>
>>>> heya
>>>> 
>>>> Is it possible to get the distance between the camera and an object in 3d 
>>>> space that has an arbitrary number of transforms below it?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
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