Line Trace Weapon with Advanced Particle Effects

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Guys,

Struggling with how to get particle effects working with line trace weapons. I have some already built with bullet mesh systems but want to optimize the net performance for high frequency weapons. However when I cant tie a particle to a mesh what is the most effective way to get a particle system working jointly with a tracer weapon system u.e. advanced tracer bullet or energy effect. Beam functionality seems a bit limited.

Is there a simple way to spawn a particle effect to move generically from A to B with velocity X?

Regards

CW

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I’m trying so many things to do this because I need it too.

If I find something, I will tell you.

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Yeah I am sure there is a way just figured somebody would have solved this problem by now :slight_smile:

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Is the best way just to tie it to an actor and use a timeline to move it smoothly?

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Ok, I found something interesting.
Ribbon Emitter/Particle it’s called what we need.

There are many tutorials out there.

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let me dig into later this week. Keep me posted on your progress and I will do the same.

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have a look on the content examples map. They have some ribbon examples on there that could give you what you want. Or you could always go with an animtrail

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Is there any tutorial or example of an implementation of a instant/trace gun tracer particle effect out there?

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Something to hold you over:

Spawn an actor (hidden in view) with the length of it being the length of the shot. Attach the Advanced Particle Effects to that. Then destroy it.