How can I get the location the player is looking?

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This is how I did it in a FPS game (C++ but should be easy to translate to BP if you’re using BP)

Range is just a float for how far I want to do the trace, can be anything you want

const FVector cameraForwardV = playerController->PlayerCameraManager->GetActorForwardVector();
const FVector cameraLocation = playerController->PlayerCameraManager->GetCameraLocation();

FVector traceEnd = cameraLocation + cameraForwardV * Range;
FCollisionQueryParams params = FCollisionQueryParams::DefaultQueryParam;
FHitResult m_calculatedhit;

GetWorld()->LineTraceSingleByChannel(m_calculatedHit, source, traceEnd, ECC_Visibility, params);

The structure of m_calculated hit will have all the info you need:

  • what object was hit
  • where the hit occured
  • etc.