Make Object look at target

Schindelar3D_1 · February 10, 2015, 3:22am

I’m just starting with blueprint and can’t find the right way to make an object look at the player.

This could be so easy, but with blueprint very simple functions sometimes need 5 nodes or more…

I have a textrender in a class blueprint and I want it to look at target.

Could please someone tell me the solution?

Byte1 · February 10, 2015, 3:32am

You’re wanting Text to look at player?

anonymous_user_37c81313 · February 10, 2015, 3:46am

Have you see this? It’s text facing the camera

Schindelar3D_1 · February 10, 2015, 3:55am

Thanx a lot !

anonymous_user_37c81313 · February 10, 2015, 4:12am

np! if that doesn’t help you, check out this post or Set actor forward to look at target - Programming & Scripting - Epic Developer Community Forums

Find Look at Rotation is what you are looking for

Schindelar3D_1 · February 10, 2015, 4:38am

OK this is helpful, but in the video he fix the problem of looking at the back of the text by simply rotating it. That works if the rotation-target is the actor not the text, but in my I have the txt inside a blueprint with some other stuff together and I don’t want it all to rotate.

Now I tried to add an offset, but that seems not working. Any idea how can I make this?

Schindelar3D_1 · February 10, 2015, 4:56am

Got it.

Isn’t it insane that you need such a huge node-tree just for make an object look at you ???

anonymous_user_37c81313 · February 10, 2015, 5:50am

Awesome! there was another person asking this question today as well so I sent him here

*sorry I’m not much help, I’ve only worked with C++

Lonewolph · February 10, 2015, 6:15am

Sorry I am new to this. What is the - one with the 3 yellow and the + one with the 3 green…??

anonymous_user_37c81313 · February 10, 2015, 6:23am

hahaha yeah…this is why I went the C++ rout XD

  FVector CameraLocation = GEngine->GetFirstLocalPlayerController(GetWorld())->PlayerCameraManager->GetCameraLocation(); 
    
FVector objectlocation = ObjectComponent->RelativeLocation;
    
ObjectComponent->RelativeRotation = FRotationMatrix::MakeFromX(CameraLocation - objectlocation).Rotator();

anonymous_user_37c81313 · February 10, 2015, 6:24am

the yellow one is vector - vector . The green is float - float

Ares9323 · April 28, 2022, 11:36am

Maybe this function didn’t exist 7 years ago, but now you can do it in a much shorter way: