Melee Hit Detection with No Compromises - Unreal Engine

Explore a conference talk from Unreal Fest Gold Coast 2024 where Digital Confectioners demonstrates their advanced melee hit detection system built on Unreal Engine's tracing capabilities. Learn about a lag-redundant and high-performance solution for action games that maintains both collision accuracy and optimal performance. Discover techniques for caching collision shapes, transform data from meshes and animations to enable collision sweep catch-up during lag or hitching. Gain insights into performance optimization strategies including minimizing collision sweeps without sacrificing accuracy, implementing upfront data caching, optimizing CPU cache usage, and reducing CPU cycle consumption. This 41-minute presentation offers valuable knowledge for game developers looking to implement robust melee combat systems.