I can't change the capsule component while crawling

Development Character & Animation
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Hello everyone,

For some days, I’ve encountered a problem when I wanted to create a crawling animation for my character.
I’m able to change the radius and the half height of the capsule, but I can’t rotate it and move it to match with my crawl animation :frowning:

Let me explain you that better with pictures:

Here is the capsule in the idle position:

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and here is the capsule in the position I would:

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Can somebody help me with that problem? Because create a new capsule and active it during the crawl animation doesn’t work…

Thank you in advance :slight_smile:

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You will not be able to do that by using the standard character class.
You can change it if you know C++ or, (and that’s what I’d do ^^), you don’t use the capsule component for collision when crawling but instead, you use another one (or any other volume…) that you add in your BP :slight_smile:
Doing so, the forward vector used of the capsule (used by the movement component and certainly other things) will not be affected and you’ll have any collision you wish.

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Thank you for your answer :slight_smile:
I’ll try this in a moment, and tell you after that if it works

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Unfortunately, it doesn’t work …
I’ve tried with some static meshes, choose “block all”, ticked other cases but nothing happens :frowning:

EDIT: Can somebody help me, please?