Hello,
I am new to creation in UEFN and Fortnite Creative in general, long story short, I am making a level and I want to restrict the players to a certain boundary.
I’ve found Barrier Device’s Hollow Box option useful, but a Hollow Cylinder would be even more useful in this situation.
Is it possible to have a “Hollow Cylinder” for a Barrier or is there another workaround for restricting the players in a Hollow Cylinder-like shape?
Thanks!
Heya,
You will have to build a cylinder.
Pick your Polygon, use trig for location and angle
So if an Octagon is suitable and the hollow box is big enough for your needs, make the hollow box, centred at 0,0 (for easier calculation).
Select one of the hollow box walls it may be located at 128000,0 Copy it,
Using trig for 45 degrees, sin & cos gives us 0.707 for the x&y
0.707 x 128000 = 90496
change its location to 90496, 90496 and change its rotation to 45
Copy and Paste to the other 3 locations to the various +/- 90496
I aspire to understand the last half of your post Canary 
On the topic of custom hollow shapes, this reminds me of a similar post I made. (No Trigonometries involved 
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The UEFN collision default is ‘Use Complex (actual geometry) as Simple’ , so the shape you make should act as a barrier without needing to change any other collision settings.
So if an imaginary line from centre of map to a side of a box is a certain distance. say a distance of 1 then the coordinates of the centre of the wall could be x=1, y=0,
then when the box becomes an octagon the distance to a new 45 degree wall should also be 1, which makes the walls centre coordinates x= 0.707, y = 0.707
With a centre at 0, all coordinates are similar values but with different + or - depending on the quadrant its in the xy plane
otherwise blah blah blah something about Pythagoras blah blah
