animating a ball moving and rotating

Development Character & Animation
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Hi All,

I am working on my first project in UE. I want to animate a ball moving in my scene up a ramp. I have successfully done that ( sort of ) with the ball animated along a spline. My issue is the ball does not rotate when it moves.

My question is how do a get it to rotate while its moving along the spline? Or is there a better way to have it move through the scene and use it along the spline?

Thanks for the help.

Alex

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@werx60 do you find solution?

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Thanks for asking. Yes, sort of. I imported the animation into UE and successfully set it up. My only issue is getting the ball to cast a shadow on the ground plane while its moving. How do I go about doing that?

Thanks
Alex

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Set the light to dynamic or stationary rather than static. Also make sure the ball mesh is set to cast shadows and the floor mesh is set to recieve shadows.

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The lights are set to stationary already. Dont objects by default cast and receive shadows? I mean all the objects in the scene that are not moving cast shadows onto the floor and I didnt do anything special to them.

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my bad. It is casting a shadow its just very faint. I need to increase the shadow darkness…hmmm