Child actor not allowing parent to use camera, and tossing actor around when moving

[EpikAura99]

I’m working on streamlining a tank blueprint I made by placing the turret into a child actor class. The hope is that I can use this to make new turrets and swap between them.

My camera is attached to part of the turret, but when I play the game, it just uses the default camera location at the origin of the tank pawn. But oddly enough, when I select the pawn in the viewport it uses the turret camera just fine, as seen below.

The turret also tosses the tank around when my mouse moves it, I suspect this is a simple physics setting somewhere. I don’t want the player moving the turret to have any impact on the motion of the tank body.

[Rev0verDrive]

How are you attaching the The spring arm and camera to the turret child actor?

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Disable the turret collision. That is what’s messing with the tanks movement.

[EpikAura99]

Thanks, that fixes the collision issue.

The camera is a child of the arm, which in turn is a child of the “pivot”, the part of the turret that angles up and down. This lets the camera follow the angle of the cannon as it moves.