How does one add weakspots to a vehicle?

[Mikhail-N]

@chrudimer

(4) Use a physical material mask (I never done this). If you hit something then you can get the physical material in the hit result. Seems that with a physical material mask you can apply several physical materials to your material. Then based on what physical material you’ve hit, you can deal different damage.

-you will need to create the textures for the mask, so setting this up will need some work
-will be most accurate in combination with complex traces [HR][/HR]
Keep in mind you don’t need to make this too accurate, only as accurate that the player does not has the feeling that something is wrong.

Ah OK so that is how you are supposed to do it, can this be done on a static mesh?

I already use a system based on what scene component was hit for determining when the weapons are hit and I hate texturing so I guess I will use suggestion 3 (I did create a system like 3 before but it would sometimes let projectiles go all the way through it without registering a hit though this was probably just me incorrectly setting up the collision.)

So I guess if the proper way involves textures I will be using the alternate way.