Attach Pickup to socket (but pivot also socket)

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hey guys, I have an APickupActor blueprint, which has a simple mesh (e.g. an axe or knife).

In the Character Blueprint I attach the pickup to the characters hand (socket is hand_r_socket) like that:

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This works nicely, but as you know, every pickup is different and needs other values for rotation and position of the pivot point.

So my idea was to add a socket (e.g. Grip Point) to each Pickup mesh. Here my questions:

  1. How can I attach to the socket Grip Point instead of the mesh
  2. How can I preview this attached pickup in the editor, so that I can store the position and rotation of the Grip Point socket of the pickup?

Best regards

2

Hi and thx for an answer. yes, but I cant preview this then in persona in the skeletal mesh of the character as preview asset.

3

Hi! You can add some offset to Pickup Mesh component (Relative to Pickup Root component) when attach Pickup and just remove this offset when detach it.