Need help with a simple aim lock system

[Lucasthyel]

@Orkney

If it was me…

Everytime an enemy enters your collision radius, add it to an array of enemies (this should be easier if all of your enemies are subclasses of a main enemy blueprint). If the enemy leaves the area, remove its instance from the array. This means when there are no enemies in the collision radius the array is empty.

When you press your lock on button, cycle through the array and get the distance to each enemy, find out which distance is the smallest and set that as your lock on enemy.

After that you will have to update your players movement and animation. And any other things you want to change.

You will also have to set up an event for when a locked on enemy strays too far away, as they will be removed from the array automatically, however you will still be ‘locked onto’ them.

The reason your blueprint isnt working is probably to do with collision settings, make sure your cube is an ObjectType = Pawn and the capsule collision overlaps ‘Pawn’ class.

Thanks for the input, Orkney. I did as you said and I think it’s more smooth/manageable now. But unfortunately, the problem remains the same, even if I do check if the array length is greater than 0, the function still returns true when the array of enemies is empty. That said, the player is still locking on an enemy that doesn’t exist either in the scene, the variable (CurrentFocusedEnemy) or in the array.