Convert UV Coordinates to (x, y, z)

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Given a texture’s UV coordinate, how would I obtain the model/world coordinate (x, y, z) for the mesh that contains that texture?

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UV map is unreliable in this case because UV map maps texture on mesh surface, what you looking for is vertices positions, which in C++ you can read here, you should also obtain UV map data of vertecies if oyu need that:

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/c-gameplay-programming/7509-accessing-vertex-positions-of-static-mesh

There is also WorldPosition node in materials that apply color based on position data of vertecies, which is a lot better then UV map and you can do computations on both using materials: