Bouncing Lightning

Hi @bjedlowski97 ! To confirm, you want lightning (electricity) to bounce between enemies, like chain-lightning?

If so, then yes, but you'll still need to tell the graph where the enemies positions are. If you don't want to leave it to the coders, you can use the VFX Binders, specifically the Multiple Position Binder. Add an exposed Texture2D and an exposed int property to blackboard, then add a VFX Multiple Position Binder component to your VFX game object and link the properties and the targets.

After this, depending on the type of effect, you can use a Sample Texture2D node or a Set Position from Map block to read the positions of the enemies (they are stored as 1x1 pixel color values in the texture, so if you have 4 enemies, the texture will be 1 pixel high and 4 pixels wide and reading the 3rd pixel will give you the world position of the 3rd enemy).

Below is the basic setup.

Of course if you want to dynamically change how many enemies are there, which one should be hit first, etc. then a bit of code to populate the Multiple Position Binder would be necessary.

Hope this helps!

 

Hi, you need to store the current and the next position and then blend between them. This example works for 2 enemies (just to create a straight line of particles traveling between them, even when they move), but hopefully it'll be enough to get you started

Just note that the two position blocks in Update are in World position (the little W icon) since that's the space we get the enemy positions in.