Creating collision for a mesh race track

Development Asset Creation
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Hello,

I’ve found this subject has been covered before but the answers don’t seem to work in the current version of UE4

I have created and imported a .fbx static mesh of a race track from 3Ds Max. I want the vehicle to be able to smoothly drive along this but no matter what settings I chose from the collisions it’s nowhere near representing the track.

Ideally I don’t want to create hundreds of collision volumes and import them with it, if there a way to force the engien to use the mesh for collision? The solution given in the link above doesn’t seem to be available anymore.

Any help appreciated!

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Go into the static mesh asset, locate collision project defaults, change to *use complex as simple. *If this is NOT producing the collisions you need, the next thing to do is switch on *show collision *(where you would see lit/unlit view options) and make sure there’s no funny business with the road and surrounding geometry. It could be that you’re using a plane to draw the road, but it might be better to use a box. I could help more with more info.

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Thank you! That worked perfectly!!! Tutorials could really do with highlighting that option.