Sonic Style homing attack?

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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How would this be achieved in blueprints for a third person game?

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I’m an idiot so there are probably way better methods than this but I think something like this should work:

  1. Do a sphere trace around the attacking character, to see if some possible target is nearby.

  2. if a target is found within some radius, maybe do a line trace from the attacking character to get the surface position of the target
    (perhaps the position of the sphere trace hit in step 1 is enough? guess it depends on how you want the homing attack to hit)

  3. lerp the position of the attacking character (or move it in some other way) with a tick or a timeline or something to the position of the target from either step 1 or 2.