How can you target the edge of the player tank?

[Mattat]

Hi,

I’m trying to extend Toon Tanks a bit. In addition to checking range I’m also having the towers check for a line of sight, so they don’t mindlessly shoot at the wall, but I’d want them to be able to see the edge of the tank poking out past a wall and target that, instead of always targeting the tank origin (which is where the sphere sweep points).

Is there a way to do this? Essentially I’d want the wall to block most of the sphere sweep, but report if a part of the sphere gets past the wall and hits the tank. I suspect that can’t be done, so perhaps I need to somehow locate the vector to the tank edges and line trace each of them to see if any hit, but I can’t work out how to find the edge to target either.

Thanks,
Matthew

[DanM]

I suggest trying out the AI Perception feature AI Perception in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.1 Documentation

[Mattat]

Excellent. Thanks Dan. I knew there had to be be something that would handle this, I’ll check it out.