Hitting the world boundaries - Ignoring the landscape boundaries

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Hello!

I recently created a heightmap and splatmap using World Machine, and now I’ve encountered a problem.
This is simply a problem because I’m relatively new to UE4, and there’s probably and easy fix.

The landscape looks like this:

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As you can see, my character is just floating in the air (this is the character placement from before the landscaping).

Now, when I try to play, the character falls ofcourse, but then suddenly everything freezes. It’s not the engine that freezes, it’s just the character and I believe this has something to do with the “world” boundaries and not the landscape boundaries.

If I lift the landscape to the characters position, he lands on the landscape and is able to run up the hills behind me (not visible on picture), but If I go down on the other side, or the same side as I ran up, the character freezes again.

How can one solve such issue?

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check the kill z height value of your map (in the world settings tab), it might be that your actor gets automatically destroyed (and you end up with a spectator camera, which does not continue to fall)

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Yup that seems to do the trick. Appreciate it! Thanks!

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Its hard to tell in this screenshot, but is your character that big?! Could be a problem if your character’s capsule size is 1 landscape tile in size. I would also advise to set your landscape offset to 0 in the Z axis to make things much easier in terms of level design and spawning.