I am trying to have my main character drag a dead body by attaching the body’s ragdoll skeleton limb to the hand of the character’s skeletal mesh. However I cannot work out how to spawn a physics constraint and change the actors on it in a blueprint, it only lets me set the components.
This shows the blueprint setup where I create the constraint and then set the bones from different actors
If I run the game and the eject posession of the pawn you can see the physics constraint has been created and the bones are assigned to it but the actors are not.
The actors are not assigned but it looks like their Mesh Components are which is what matters. The issue i think might have to do with the constraints them selves, are they locked or limited etc.
To have better control maybe its easier if you make a BP_PhysConstraintActor and spawn that, from there you can setup whatever constraints and dampings etc before you spawn it.
But personally if i where you i would use a PhysicsHandle Component, this is pretty much what it was made for, grabbing a physics actor from like your hand and then having that actor lerp to it etc. with whatever damping you set. You can make it move slow or super fast, highly recommend checking it out. It is much simpler to use as well compared to Phys Constraint and supports replication.
