How do I lock fired projectile direction to an enemy?

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How difficult would it be to have an option of pressing a button to lock onto enemies in a certain range?? Like first person metroid prime style.

Basically like any other lock on so when enemy moves ur camera follows it for however long u set it to whatever other reasoning. I use blueprints. …could someone help me?

Thank you!!!

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From player controller, i think they have 1 node is Set View Target with Blend, you can check that.

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I see it…how exactly would I use that to achieve what I’m going for??

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Can anyone explain to me how set view target with blend node works???

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Hi AttemptD,

Try using “Find Look at Rotation”, that should force function to head directly for object you set it to.

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What if there are multiple enemies??? Is there a way to make it understand to move towards nearest enemy?

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You could use a Get All Actors of Class node with class of your AI, which returns an array. Do a ForEachLoop and find location of each, do some basic math to see which is closest, and then use Find Look at Rotation.

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This seems perfect!!! Would it be possible for you to explain basic math part to me? That’s where I’m confused.

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If you have position of projectile (GetActorLocation) and you have array of enemies you can do something like following.

http://puu.sh/aQyBK/b923926d7e.png

Set first Closest Range to something really high so that branch doesn’t fail first time projectile searchs for a target.