Dynamically altering colliders

Development World Creation
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Hey,
pretty new to UE4 here. I’m working on a 2d game and would like to have some generated geometry in there.
Is it possible to:

  1. Dynamically alter the collision shape of a UBoxComponent?
  2. Dynamically alter the collision vertices on a sprite?

I’ve poked around a bit trying to find a way to do 1, but came up with nothing.

2

what kind of alterations did you have in mind?

3

I’d like to change the extents of UBoxComponent or add/move vertices of a sprite collider.

4

I’m not sure about box components, but I change my CapsuleComponent’s dimensions on the fly for crouching, so I’m 99% sure it should be possible for BoxComponents.

E.g. in my Character:

UCapsuleComponent* capsuleComp = GetCapsuleComponent();

capsuleComp->SetCapsuleSize(newWidth * 0.5f, newHeight * 0.5f, true);
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Thanks.
SetBoxExtent looks like an analogous function for UBoxComponent - I’ll give it a try.

Edit: Yup, it works.
I’m still curious about the answer to #2, but that might be much harder.