Attempting to implement a directional blocking mechanic.

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Imagine the big cube at the top is the enemy attacking the player:

Dot Product XYZ (Vector 4)

3d vector swill do:

Use 3d if you’re expecting to be attacked from above / below, too. If you’re game is flat, you could get away with 2d.

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Print this to get the feel of what dot is doing.

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a thread with relevant examples:

How to create God of War targetting system?

The Dot Product of 2 directional vectors will be in range of -1 to 1. Anything that’s above 0 is in front of you, anything below 0 is behind (and every other value in between matters, too!) [dot.jpg] I grab all the actors around the player using a Sphere Overlap (as in the original suggestion) and loop through the elements of the array, checking my angles - Dot player’s forward and the direction to each target. For dot values greater than .5 I mark the target, and add that actor to the array…