How to prevent the player from clipping through static meshes?

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hello everyone! I’m using the Character Blueprint provided by the Game Animation Sample in Unreal Engine 5.4.4, modifying it to make it first-person and enabling crouch. The camera is managed via a Spring Arm to which it’s attached, and the spring arm references the head socket bone for head movement (Bobbing View).

The problem
However, when I sprint toward a static mesh or crouch near one, the camera clips through it for a moment before snapping back to its original position. This issue is even more noticeable during crouch: it looks like the camera has a sort of “spring effect,” ignoring all collisions and continuing forward until I release the forward movement key.

Below is a video demonstrating the problem:

So far, I’ve tried increasing the radius of the Capsule Component, which partially solves the issue, but this is bulky and not optimal.
I’d like to know if there’s a method to prevent this problem or if I need to create a brand new first-person Character Blueprint from scratch.

Thank you in advance for your help.

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Is DoCollisionTest checked on the spring arm component?

Also, this thread has some ideas on the topic if you haven’t seen it already Spring Arm Problem - Development / Programming & Scripting - Epic Developer Community Forums (unrealengine.com)

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Hey there, I checked to see if DoCollisionTest was enabled (because I honestly didn’t remember) and it was.
I had already looked at the link you provided, but unfortunately it didn’t solve my problem: the mannequin mesh is invisible in my Character Blueprint since I don’t need it rendered so there is no risk for the character to clipping in itself, but I do need the head movement and animation dynamics from the Game Animation Sample.
I lowered the near clip plane to 1, but it still clips into walls and other props, so that doesn’t really fix the issue.