Character keeps switching to falling when on water surface

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Hello Forums.

First I should show you what I’m working with:

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Using a Buoyancy component, I have made my character able to enter swimming mode and exit into walking mode. I’m using the UE water plugin for the water bodies. This part works perfect.

The problem is, when I reach the surface of the water, the character keeps switching between falling/swimming mode and causes a lot of jittering.

How could I make the character stop doing this and just stay level with the waterline?

Things I Have Tried:

In the water body, I tried adjusting the “Collision Height Offset” this did not appear to have any effect.

Disabling jumping while in water and setting OutofWater Z to 0, 100 and even -1000

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Hey there @Z3R0K0! Depending on how you want the player’s interaction with water to go, swapping to the Falling state is somewhat expected. I would personally try to make a “Cooldown” between certain state transfers, so for maybe half a second after leaving the water the state doesn’t change, the state can attempt a change. This should be instantly overridden if the character touches the ground.

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I hear what you are saying, but I don’t know how to do it. Could you show me somehow? It would be much appreciated