# Line trace an opacity mask

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**Category:** Blueprint\
**Tags:** line-trace, opacity-mask, unreal-engine, Blueprint, question\
**Created:** [July 21, 2017, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/line-trace-an-opacity-mask/397730 "2017-07-21T15:54:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/line-trace-an-opacity-mask/397730/4 "2017-07-22T17:30:11Z")

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UE3 had a feature called “Physical Material Mask”, that allows you to set black/white texture and apply 2 physical materials to surface. In UE4 its still in backlog, but maybe you can develop it on your own.

[https://docs.unrealengine.com/udk/Three/PhysicalMaterialMask.html](https://docs.unrealengine.com/udk/Three/PhysicalMaterialMask.html)

One more option is to detect color of hit surface by getting it from color buffer. So the invisible part of image will be filled with solid color, like (0.5,0.5,0.5), and you will ignore line trace when it hit.

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