{"name":"vectorSide","title":"vectorSide","type":"command","url":"https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/vectorSide","revid":378405,"updated":"2026-04-04T08:14:48Z","groups":["Math - Vectors"],"status":"ok","games":{"arma3":"2.14"},"since":"arma3 2.14","arma3_since":"2.14","locality":{"argument":"global"},"description":"Returns an object's side vector in world space.\n\n> [!IMPORTANT]\n> The vector is **not necessarily normalized**. The magnitude of the vector depends on the object's scale.","syntaxes":[{"syntax":"vectorSide object","params":[{"name":"object","type":"Object","type_expr":"Object"}],"returns":{"type":"Vector3D","type_expr":"Vector3D"},"form":"unary","right":{"text":"object"}}],"examples":[{"code":["_vecSide = vectorSide MyObject;"]}],"see_also":["vectorSideVisual","vectorUpVisual","vectorDir","setVectorDir","setVectorUp","setVectorDirAndUp","vectorDiff","vectorAdd","vectorMultiply","vectorCrossProduct","vectorDistance","vectorMagnitudeSqr","vectorDistanceSqr","vectorCos","vectorMagnitude","vectorDotProduct","vectorNormalized","vectorFromTo","BIS_fnc_getPitchBank","BIS_fnc_transformVectorDirAndUp"]}