# Shooting limbs

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**Category:** Programming & Scripting\
**Tags:** unreal-engine\
**Created:** [November 24, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/shooting-limbs/339537 "2015-11-24T14:58:13Z")\
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i did not play dead space 3, but when you mean something like a arm mounted gun, best look up projectile  
here is a howto

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if you mean shooting of limbs, then you should do that with multiple collision areas, like one for each separatable part, and remove the constraint on the connection to the next part when you let the entity die, before letting the physics take over the movement of the entity(ragdoll system)

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