Is it Possible to Measure Shortest Distance Between Meshes and Not the Distance Between Their Respective Pivot Points

Everynone · September 22, 2021, 7:46am

I imagine it’s going to require some
complex functions to analyze meshes at
the polygon level to obtain the
shortest distance.

Nah.

shoot a line trace from A to B → store the AB vector
shoot a line trace from B to A → store the BA vector
ensure you Trace Complex

The length of AB-BA is the distance.

But there’s also the chance I misunderstood the question. I was thinking this:

But you may want the other thing. The closest distance between any 2 screen pixels? Or any two verts?

anonymous_user_6aee9ce6 · September 22, 2021, 6:47am

Is it Possible to Measure Shortest Distance Between Meshes and Not the Distance Between Their Respective Pivot Points

I imagine it’s going to require some complex functions to analyze meshes at the polygon level to obtain the shortest distance.

anonymous_user_6aee9ce6 · October 8, 2021, 7:43am

Sorry for the delay getting back, got pulled off to work on another project.

Thanks, this looks like exactly what I need.

Do you think you can share the blueprint? Can’t seem to get it working.

Thanks again for the help.

Everynone · October 8, 2021, 8:02am

The debug #2 is optional, ofc. Distance is just this:

Good luck!

anonymous_user_6aee9ce6 · October 9, 2021, 4:33am

I was waaaaaaay off. Thanks a bunch. Ironically, I got pulled off this project to create a blueprint walkthrough tutorial video for other members of the group. Our boss hired someone to train us in Unreal and he is absolutely terrible. I stopped attending the course and browsed the forums instead, but my coworkers stuck with the training and they are confused like crazy. I learned more in an hour going through posts like yours than I did in 12 hrs of classes.

Thanks for the awesome help!!!