Attach AI Sight to Pawn Head? (Perception)

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Thank you very much, this is the correct way to do it.

In you Pawn/Character’s header file, override GetActorEyesViewPoint:

virtual void GetActorEyesViewPoint(FVector& OutLocation, FRotator& OutRotation) const override;

And in the C++ file, I used a socket in the skeletal mesh that pointed forward X in the direction of sight:

void AEnemyCharacter::GetActorEyesViewPoint(FVector& OutLocation, FRotator& OutRotation) const
{
static const FName VisualSense = FName(TEXT(“VisualSense”));
const FTransform ViewTransform = GetMesh()->GetSocketTransform(VisualSense);

OutLocation = ViewTransform.GetLocation();
OutRotation = ViewTransform.GetRotation().Rotator();

}

Confirmed to work in UE5.3.2.

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