My guns work with LineTraceByChannel and I am trying to get the Physical Material and/or the Surface type of whatever is shot so I can add blood effects/deal damage etc… The problem is when you shoot my AI characters it almost always returns the PhysMat as “DefaultPhysicalMaterial” and the Surface…

Did you check, which component gets hit? It is possible, that your linetrace hits the capsule component of your Actor instead of the skeletal mesh component itself. In this case, you need to make sure, that the Capsule has the Trace Response for the Channel set to Ignore (most likely you use the Vis…

Linetrace often doesn't see my materials, just returns with "Default"

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jcuypers (jcuypers) September 5, 2022, 3:04pm 3

Maybe this helps?

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