Blueprints Visual Scripting for Unreal Engine - Second Edition

Detecting a hit

To create our hit detection Event, right-click on empty graph space and type hit in the search box. The Event Hit node is what we are looking for, so select it when it appears in the search results. Event Hit triggers Actions every time another Actor hits the Actor controlled by this Blueprint:

Once you have the Event Hit node on the graph, notice that Event Hit has a number of multicolored output pins originating from it. The first thing to notice is the white triangular pin that is in the top-right corner of the node. This is the execution pin, which determines the next Action to be taken in a sequence. Linking the execution ...