How to get around collision capsule for character

[Rev0verDrive]

@entropyandvodka

I’m dealing with similar issues. It depends a lot on what your prone behavior needs to handle. The easiest option might be to reduce the capsule size and radius, then do capsule or sphere traces for the upper body and legs to find surfaces you can move on or prevent you from clipping into other ones. This can all be done in blueprints without much trouble. The biggest issue is more likely the complexity of the environment the character needs to move in.

What I’m doing is using additive collisions (capsules, boxes) and their begin/end overlap events to enable/disable movement input. For transitions prone -> crouch/stand I’m doing line traces upward to determine if there’s head room. Same approach for going prone.

Here’s an example.https://.com/watch?v=5VzygjoKXUQ
** Note: character velocity has an impact on when the overlap event fires. Moving fast the collision overlap is a bit delayed. You may need to adjust for this by moving the collision outward as you accelerate.

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