Can't Child Actor to move with the meshes animations

[drewjohnson71]

I can’t figure out how to get the beard (child actor component) and mustache (groom component) to move with the mesh. They are both parented to the mesh

I suspect the issue might have something to do with how I have the character set up… the Mesh is a head… the “armor mesh” is the body… I bought these beard assets and copied exactly how the blueprint had them in the example (in the asset there is a third person character BP with the beard on there) - but can’t replicate it and I’m guessing my mesh is the issue… my mesh uses the default UE skeleton

[Zssork]

You have to attach it to a socket or bone. In the child component you can find that in the properties.

[drewjohnson71]

Hey @Zssork
It says “cannot change socket on inherited components” any idea on how to get around that?

[Zssork]

The component needs to be directly under the sceletal mesh. You have Point_1 in between and then Beard. So either set the parent socket in the Point_1 scene component or move the Beard to be directly under your mesh then it should work

[drewjohnson71]

Thanks for trying to help w/ this - appreciate it
But i’m still getting the same issue. Even with both Beard Set and Mustache parented directly to the mesh.“Cannot change socket on inherited components”.

Any other ideas?

[drewjohnson71]

For anyone else having this issue - here is the solution - just put in this in your construction script!