Whats the difference between a Raycast and a Line Trace?

[Jambax]

Could someone explain the difference? As I understand it a Raycast is for collisions, whereas a line-trace doesn’t ‘necessarily’ use collision data and is simply a line? Not sure…

I’m referring mainly to the use of the “Single Line Trace by Channel” node in the Blueprint Editor, I’m trying to do two traces, find a collision for each of them, then grab the Min of both values.

[MulleDK19]

@TheJamsh;6518

Could someone explain the difference? As I understand it a Raycast is for collisions, whereas a line-trace doesn’t ‘necessarily’ use collision data and is simply a line? Not sure…

I’m referring mainly to the use of the “Single Line Trace by Channel” node in the Blueprint Editor, I’m trying to do two traces, find a collision for each of them, then grab the Min of both values.

There is no difference. Raycast and Line Trace is two terms for the same thing.

[Jambax]

@MulleDK19;6526

There is no difference. Raycast and Line Trace is two terms for the same thing.

Excellent, that simplifies things for me massively. Thanks