How to Calculate Angle Between Player and Enemy and Check if Within Attack Range

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• no need to normalise direction, it’s already normalised
• Get Unit Direction can shave nodes off your script
• no need for cross product unless you need left / right
• Dot → aCOSd is faster; or skip the degrees entirely and work with dot values directly

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…