Conic/Cone shaped abilities

[ElectricBloo]

I am trying to figure out the best way to do cone-shaped abilities such as this example from league of legends character Annie’s W ability. I have a rough idea involving getting all the actors in front of the player, then using math to see if the actor is within a certain angle from the direction the player cast the ability. Is this a good way of approaching this? I feel like I may be overthinking it.

[Everynone]

@ElectricBloo

Is this a good way of approaching this? I feel like I may be overthinking it.

Sounds about right.

Check this out:

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…

And this, too:

Detect if player is inside Area of Effect?

Sounds a bit as if the directions were not calculated correctly. Perhaps there’s an Z discrepancy? Hard to tell without seeing it. Best to discard Z; it could look like this: [image] Drawing Xs on targets that would get hit with the math.