playcanvas / playcanvas/engine

Feature request: local position/rotation to a reference entity

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Since Jun 15, 2026.

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Description

This is a feature request to get local position/rotation of an entity in another entity's local frame. Something like:

entity.getLocalPosition(referenceEntity /* optional */,  resultVec3 /* optional */)
entity.getLocalRotation(referenceEntity /* optional */,  resultQuat /* optional */)

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