How could I get/create a vector that is just in front of the player so if I spawned something there it would be directly in front of the players view
Getting a Vector In front of the player
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Do this:
Of course ThePlayer will be the reference to the player you want to spawn the object in front of. Distance is the distance between the player and the spanwed object (in unreal units). You can increase or decrease "Distance" to make it farther, or closer to the player. If you need an aproximate distance in feet, just divide "Distance" by 16.
Code:
local vector x, y, z, SpawnLoc, Start;
local int Distance;
Distance = 200;
GetAxes(ThePlayer.ViewRotation, X, Y, Z);
Start = ThePlayer.Location + CalcDrawOffset();
SpawnLoc = Start + vector(ThePlayer.ViewRotation) * Distance;
Spawn(class'YourClass',,,SpawnLoc);Of course ThePlayer will be the reference to the player you want to spawn the object in front of. Distance is the distance between the player and the spanwed object (in unreal units). You can increase or decrease "Distance" to make it farther, or closer to the player. If you need an aproximate distance in feet, just divide "Distance" by 16.
You might first want to perform a trace to make sure whatever is "Distance" units in front of the player in the direction of the player's ViewRotation is not the level geometry or another actor.
Yep! Good call I forgot about that...so do this instead:
Code:
local vector x, y, z, EndTrace, StartTrace, HitLocation, HitNormal;
local int Distance;
local actor A;
Distance = 200;
GetAxes(ThePlayer.ViewRotation, X, Y, Z);
StartTrace = ThePlayer.Location + CalcDrawOffset();
EndTrace= Start + vector(ThePlayer.ViewRotation) * Distance;
A = Trace(HitLocation, HitNormal, EndTrace, StartTrace);
if(A == None)
Spawn(class'YourClass',,,HitLocation);although if you're feeling really sadistic you might want to make a weapon that gibs the target by spawning a big chunk of something at it's location.