How could I get the current target in a first person view?

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hey,

I would like to know how can i get the current target in a first person view.
I have a crosshair, and how can i get the actor i am looking at? Is there a built in function or i have to loop through all actors and find the closest one?

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Use “Single Line Trace For Object”.

You can set “start location” as camera location, end location as "camera’s forward + 100000 (the length of Target Searching)

And there is a return value called “OutHit”

Spilt it and you can see “Out Hit Hit Actor”. this is what the trace hit.

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trace for objects can be annoying. mainly cause you have to make an ObjectTypes array, and it boggled my mind how to make it when i was(probably still am) a noob.

trace for channel works quicker, but only if you know/have setup what channel your target actor is on… i think the default is WorldDynamic.

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Hey,
I already figured out i can use tracing method to find the target. I was hoping there is a built in function for this.
Thanks anyway.