Amnesia styled object dragging- Use Physic Constraint Physical Asset Constraint?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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Hello

I Have been doing some research on the best way to implement a system to drag physical objects arround very much the same mechanic Amnesia:The Dark Descent has

Here is an example, a Shelf that due to its weight cant be dragged but the lower doors can be opened using the mouse ( dragging them )

I could either Turn the shelf into a static mesh, export both of the lower doors as separate meshes , turn them into a staticmeshactor and add a Physical Constraint Actor to both of them and parent them to the main shelf

Or

Keep the shelf as a static mesh and just add another physical constraint point on both of them so they rotate properly, as well tweak the Physical Asset weight both methods work just fine , im just not sure what would be the best way to go ahead with this

Thanks

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I got it to work easly by using a UPhysicalConstraint Component, I just pass in the component i got from a trace done from the player Mouse Cursor (up to a reasonable distance ) and disable it once the player releases the “Hold” Key You can see an example of it on the Content Examples demo, Blueprint level