Can't Re-Enable collision through Construction Script

[Anthony_Dimovski]

Hello, I’m having trouble with collisions not behaving as I expect it to
Basically I have a road mesh + the sidewalks that are made up of multiple meshes
The sidewalk meshes are grouped under a single mesh named ‘SideWalks’. I have a boolean switch to control visibility and collision

Problem: When disabling the collision initially, I’m unable to re-enable it using the boolean switch I created. It’s like it’s permanently disabled when I switch it off, or it just doesn’t refresh

I’ve spent a while experimenting and finding work arounds, but no luck. I’m also not super adept at blueprint stuff, so any help is appreciated

[ClockworkOcean]

Why not use?

Scene components are not static meshes, so I assume the cast is failing.

[Anthony_Dimovski]

Sorry, but that doesn’t seem to work, as it’s expecting an actor, not a scene component. I want to be able to hide a specified parent + it’s children that I’ve setup in my blueprint scene. I’ve also tried Destroying the components when the condition is false but no luck.

[ClockworkOcean]

I get it…

There’s been a lot of references to this over the years, I assume it’s a ‘feature’ of the engine.

The solution is to set the collision at runtime

[Anthony_Dimovski]

Ah I see, yeah you’re right. When I do it at runtime it seems to be working perfectly. Shame, I was hoping I could keep everything in the construction script