How to make 2.5D Side Scroller aim weapon at mouse cursor?

[anonymous_user_8fc00337]

I am trying to get my character’s weapon to aim towards the position of my mouse. Here is the blueprint I am using:

This works, but only in orthographic camera view. I need it to work for perspective view, since my game is taking place in 3D, and I’m not sure how to do it. Any tips will be greatly appreciated.

[Everynone]

How’s this:

Line Trace from a 3d point to mouse location

You’re tracing with a fixed distance of 500, replacing the projection’s X with a fixed value. It’s actually hard to imagine how that would look like, a strangely distorted / twisted undulating surface mayhaps? , for sure. I want this trace to stay on the same plane as my character, so the X value of the start point & end point should be the same. Consider the following: [image] create a virtual plane where the character is and point it towards X (Plane Normal 1,0,0) …