From the course: Unreal: AR Visualization 02 Basic Interactivity
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What is hit testing? - Unreal Engine Tutorial
From the course: Unreal: AR Visualization 02 Basic Interactivity
What is hit testing?
- [Instructor] If you're not new to Unreal development, you're familiar with HIT testing and what that means. And if so, feel free to skip this video. In short, HIT testing is whenever an object in the world hits an object or is hit by something else in our scene. It is a concept used throughout the Unreal Engine world and not exclusive to AR. So, if we have a T-Rex that races through a level and then hits another player or object in our scene, it is a hit and therefore an event where something else needs to happen. This where blueprints or code come handy where if we hit something, something else happens. So if we hit another object, then we could get points, damage, et cetera. For anyone who played a game in the past, this isn't a new concept. The same concepts could apply to AR, where a HIT event generates another. So if we apply this AR, it would simply mean whenever we touch the screen, something happens, like a…
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