Shoot from socket

Development Programming & Scripting
1

hi.
I want shoot from a socket and rotate it for shooting to front of player;
I find socket location with firstPersonSkeletalMesh->GetSocketLocation(“MuzzleFlash”) but I think it is RelativeLocation of socket from skeletal mesh.
how can I find global location of this socket ? and rotate it for shooting to front of player ?
thanks

2

thanks for your help.
I take mistake in GetSocketLocation return value :slight_smile:

3

Hi,

/** 
	 * Get world-space socket or bone location.
	 * @param InSocketName Name of the socket to get the transform 
	 * @return Socket transform in world space if socket if found. Otherwise it will return component's transform in world space.
	 */
	UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable, Category="Utilities|Transformation", meta=(Keywords="Bone"))
	virtual FVector GetSocketLocation(FName InSocketName) const;

So the GetSocketLocation returns socket location in world space.

For the direction you can use:

virtual FRotator GetSocketRotation(FName InSocketName) const;

or

/** Get the forward (X) vector (length 1.0) from this Actor, in world space.  */
	UFUNCTION(BlueprintCallable, Category = "Utilities|Transformation")
	FVector GetActorForwardVector() const;

Regards

Pierdek