Now I have a beam that ricochets like this: http://gfycat.com/ScarceFirsthandAfricanharrierhawk I want the red beams to kill players but I dont want the beam to just end where the player is, I want the beam to go right through the player and I also want it so you can kill 2 players with 1 beam (even yourself)
So Tracing just 2 lines where 1 line is used for the beam effect and the other is used for hit detection is not preferred because that means 1 beam cannot hit more then 1 actor.
Is there a way to generate an array of all overlapping actors of the beam or linetrace? I’ve tried a few solutions but the particle effect doesn’t seem to trigger an overlap event.
In your BP setup a overlap event for the particle system and setup checks to see what overlaps it and fire the event only if the overlapping actor is a player pawn or the specific character class etc. Like this:
Thanks for the prompt reply!
If I promote the particle asset to a blueprint can I still set the target of the beam?
Because currently I have it set up like this:
I spawn an emitter and assign it to an array
And then I move the beams like so:
Not entirely sure how you can spawn a blueprint particle effect like that and I’m not sure if I can assign a beam target with a blueprint particle effect. I’ll try and look deeper into it though.
Well with the way you are spawning them you may need to create a separate BP to spawn the collision box around the beam…experimenting and working your way through what works best is going to be your best bet. You could setup just a BP for the collision box and spawn that with the beam as it is…you can spawn a collision box with the extents the Y and Z of the beam and then get the forward vector length of each section of the beam to “draw” out the X size of the extent and in the same BP setup the overlap events for the collision box.
Alright I figured out how to spawn a BP component that maintains the same effect but now I gotta figure out how to trigger the overlap because the particle beam itself does not trigger an overlap and I cannot see any kind of collision setting in the details panel so yeah your idea is probably what I need to do, create a trigger volume that surrounds the particle effect.
Thanks so much for your help
In case someone else was wondering how I spawned a BP particle the same way I would just use the Spawn Emitter node here is how it looks now:
Try using the same method you are using to spawn the beams…you could run a line trace from the starting point and get the trace length and use that to set the forward dimension of the box…preset the Y & Z of the box to be slightly larger than the beam and the X is set by the line trace vector length.
Aaah triggers have a “box extent” setting. So I just set the extents of the volume by the vector length divided by two. Awesome thanks for your help! <3
