How to give player character custom collision?

[VisAgilis]

Hey @OkItsTheChris!

@OkItsTheChris

I can’t rotate the capsule component

Yep, it must always stay upright! You can only rotate it by constantly setting its rotation.

@OkItsTheChris

people said I would need to create my own pawn

No need!

@OkItsTheChris

But for some reason the BP class “Pawn” does not get a character movement component.

Yep!

So what you’ll wanna do is, navigate to the Components window on the top left, select the capsule component, then while having it selected, navigate to the Details window on the right side, and under the Collision section, set the Collision Presets to Custom, expand it, and under the Object Responses section, set Pawn to Ignore like this:

Then navigate back to the Components window, select Mesh, whie still having it selected, navigate to the Details window, and under Collision > Collision Presets > Object Responses, make sure that Pawn is set to Block.

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Refer to this post of mine:

Collision settings for components

Hey @volumetrix! Collision settings of the parent doesn’t override the child’s. Here’s a nice example! You can have the capsule component of a character block everything except for the pawn class, and have the mesh block everything. That way, the player character (or any other pawn) still can’t phase through the character but can get inside its capsule component, while normally there’d be a big gap between the two meshes. Hope this answers your question

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Hope this helps!