how to get where someone clicked on a map

[smoth]

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function widget:MousePress(mouseX, mouseY, mButton)
	local _, location = Spring.TraceScreenRay(mouseX, mouseY)

	if location ~= nil then
		Spring.Echo(location[1],location[2],location[3])
	end
end

because I could not find the answer searching the forum. Now it is here for someone else to use.

[Jools]

If mouse is above unit or feature, the "x"-coordinate will instead be the unitID/featureID. Just saying.

[gajop]

Add a third parameter that specifies you just want map coords instead:
local _, location = Spring.TraceScreenRay(mouseX, mouseY, true)

[smoth]

Thanks for adding to the thread. I don't normally write this sort of thing so I just handled it all wrong

I did this

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if location ~= nil and type(location) == "table" then