Another Tank Turret Problem

Development Character & Animation
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Hi all,

I’ve got a skeletal mesh of a tank with all the mesh contained in it, i.e. the turret, wheels, track, etc.

I am unable to make the turret move with the mouse, or at all quite frankly.

There are many tutorials/videos but I’ve followed the ones that don’t use Vigilante assets (I don’t have the assets) and I am still unable to get the turret to be controlled.

This is my tank blueprint

TANK_BP
TANK_BP1938×443 94.3 KB

This is the Animation instance event graph

EVENT_GRAPH
EVENT_GRAPH1782×811 118 KB

And lastly the AnimGraph

ANIMGRAPH
ANIMGRAPH1757×1007 148 KB

I’m certain this is something basic I’m missing, but I’m so deep I can’t see it.

Any help is appreciated.

All the best.

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Update, when I modify TURRETMOVE variable, I see the turret move in the preview window.

When I play, the turret is still a dead fish :frowning:

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So I’ve decided to break the problem down into a simpler example.

I just made a 3 simple shapes in blender and imported into UE (5.8).

DUMMY_TURRET
DUMMY_TURRET1532×848 123 KB

I found I was able to control the Yaw of the turret only when the collision presets in the main BP of the skeletal mesh were set to “NoCollision”. However, I need collision.

I thought this meant that the physics bodies of the skeletal mesh were interfering with each other, so I modified the bodies to ensure they do not contact one another, but I am still unable to control the Yaw of the turret.