Shooting projectiles in random directions when mouse cursor overlaps player?

[SyntheticLove]

I’ve attempted to do this in many different ways but to no Avail The projectile usually hits the ground underneath the player I’m currently using a slightly modified Twin Stick shooter template if that helps.

[ClockworkOcean]

Can you show your projectile code?

EDIT: Having typed that, I’m already wondering about the collision of anything you may have added to the pawn…

[SyntheticLove]

Sure and to answer your question no other collision was added to the base pawn apart from a different SM.

[Everynone]

The projectile usually hits the ground
underneath the player

Get Hit Result Under Cursor hits the floor - so you’re attempting to shoot at the floor. Either add Z offset to the hit location or use a method that does not revolve around getting hits from level geometry:

Line Trace from a 3d point to mouse location

I’m making a 3d side-scroller game and I want to do a line trace from the character glasses to wherever I click on the screen with the mouse. I want this trace to stay on the same plane as my character, so the X value of the start point & end point should be the same. This is the best I could do, but it’s not accurate - When I click roughly in the center of the screen the trace is pretty accurate, but when I click further away from the center it gets less and less accurate…So…What am I doing w…

In your case you’d use 0,0,1 as Normal and place the plane at gun height.

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But to be honest, it all depends how you want it to work. Do we always shoot at the same level? What if the enemy is higher / lower than us?

[SyntheticLove]

It was that easy…well then…I appreciate the help