How to create a laser that bounces on the walls and hurts players?

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@RyanB;447621

edit, previous suggestion was not correct

Looks like your 1st line trace is trying to ‘project’ the line by multiplying by 5000, but that is an actual world space location you are tracing to. You do not need to multiply that by 5000 there.

Also you may need to convert the position into a vector before doing “Mirror vector by normal”. That vector can just be Normalize(Start - End). Then you mirror that, and then multiply the result of the mirrored vector by 5000 (or whatever your max length it)

The first attack linetrace expects a start and an end:
Start - where the player is
End - where the mouse cursor is

But if I’m not aiming at a wall (as you can see in the example images in my previous post) the linetrace just stops, i.e: nothing happens, it doesn’t bounce anywhere.
That’s why I thought I’d increase the End point by multiplying by 5000 would help the linetrace hit something on the way to the end point.

I don’t quite follow what you mean, all positions are already vectors?

@Mhousse1247;447661

I don’t understand well what are you trying to achieve , here is my comprehension :
You want to fire a laser in a direction and it will bounce from wall to wall ?
It will bounce continuously until it hits a player or the laser has a certain lifetime?

Players can shoot a laser.
The laser bounces on the walls, and hurts players if they are hit by the laser.

It doesn’t matter for how long the laser bounces or not, it’s just an idea of mine to have a powerup that allows the player to have their laser bounce more times before being destroyed (because it didn’t hit any players)…