#touch everything

I'm following a set of tutorials for this, because I really haven't touched blueprints until now. All four are by Code Things on YouTube. Not done it yet, but so far so good. It's a tad bit of a rabbit hole, but it's worth it

First: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTZhNb0eKa8 Second: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-JxS8yy6ao Third: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKO4DDjnP70 Forth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDlnOg22YNQ

So far I've got it where as you approach the object the interaction icon pops up. The setup was fairly quick

Create a blueprint, drop in your mesh (the item to interact with), and put as many collision radii you want. I have 2. An "in view", and an "in reach" radius. But I wouldn't fault you for having just an "in reach" radius. To those collisions, attach your icons (Unreal calls them billboards)

To set up the events we need a "begin overlap", if the actor that enters the overlap is the player character, set the visibility of the "InReachIcon" to visible. DONE. Do the same for the "end overlap" event. Here I needed another "set visibility" at the end of that to turn off/on the visibility of the "InViewIcon" so they aren't both visible at the same time. Bellow that are the "begin/end overlap" for the "InViewIcon" aswell

The construction script is the thing that runs when the object gets put into the world. Here we can make the blueprint more versatile promoting the radii of the collisions to a variables. I also went ahead and promoted the height of the icon to a variable so we can adjust it for each item we drop into the world