While this looks like it should work, it doesn’t give me the results I’m after. If I don’t attach the beam particle to the specified ‘Eye’ socket on my mesh, this happens:
The beam component here is simply playing along the actor’s forward vector, and ignoring the specified target point entirely, instead playing the beam particle’s effect according to its components local scale. Attaching the particle component to the socket directly doesn’t seem to fix the issue either:
Again, it seems to be only drawing according to the component’s local transform, instead of specified source and end points. Currently, I have the particle component as a component of the actor, as a child of its mesh:
I suspect I’m missing something incredibly obvious here, but how do I set this system so that the beam will always end at the target point that I specify? Any help on this issue will be greatly appreciated.
I’ve not had luck with the little time i spent trying the beam specific blueprint nodes. I find this works just fine using the Set Actor/Location Parameter which just requires you to add a Target module from the Beam category in your emitter and name it something like Target.
Yeah, the beam had been set up like that. I figured out that the issue was that the beam’s target destination was set to Direct rather than User Set, so it wasn’t updating that position dynamically like I wanted it to. It seems like I got the issue fixed now though, so thanks!
I faced the same confusion, so for anyone coming to this question:
In Particle Emitter Settings:
Beam Data>Beam>Beam Method must be set to Target
Target>Target Method must be set to “User Set” (Don’t confuse with Target>Target>TargetTangent Method)
Blueprint:
Set Beam Target Point with a New Target Point Location
Agreed. Click the little checkmark next to ShortStuf7’s post. Also at the time of this original posting 2 years ago the generic Beam Nodes were buggy but seem to all work now.
