So I want to do a line trace against an object and get multiple hits on that object. I am doing this with a complex trace. How I would want this to work would be something like this:
----x ]----x ]----->
Where the dashes are the line trace, the x’s are hits and the brackets represent part of the mesh. My thought on how to accomplish this would be to do one line trace, then at the hit location of that line trace do another one. However, this leads to initial overlap issues, which I’m not entirely sure how to ignore.
Multi line trace is out of the question, since it only works once for each object / component
Unfortunately, like I said in the OP, once a multi line trace hits an object, it ignores it for the rest of the trace, meaning an object can only appear once in the trace’s outputted hits, which is not what I want.
Are you trying to register hits on different parts of the same object at the same time, or are you trying to repeat the same trace multiple times hitting the same object? Total newb here, but if you are trying to hit multiple components on the same object maybe you could build the object with the construction node. Use multiple meshes with an actor “tag”. This would atleast let you pick out specific pieces you are hitting. Or if you don’t need the individual components maybe you could just store the hit object in an array and then do things twice to the object hit. So you are not actually hitting the object twice. You are hitting the object then doing things to the object twice.
When I said object, I should have said static mesh component. If you build a mesh out of multiple static mesh components, the line trace will hit each component for a maximum of 1 time. What I want is to have one component and hit it a max of n times.
It hits the component once, even if it’s set to overlap. Like I said, I should have been more precise and said component rather than object.
When you start the new trace from the end point, you end up hitting in the same place. Alternatively, I’ve tried moving it by a small, fixed delta, but that leads to some issues with faces being really close together, which I have them, so this method also doesn’t work.