Level Streaming: Character falls when a level is loaded

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This is the first time I’m using level streaming for a mobile game(I’m doing a maze game actually)… I have set a box trigger to load up one of the section in the maze… the problem is that whenever the player overlaps the box trigger the character falls … I don’t think this problem is to be solved by a loading screen, coz even if I set the section to load always. … the same happens… But other sections are working perfectly as expected… And FYI the landscape is in the persistent level

Click here So that you can get a clear picture of my Problem!

Thanks
-Akash

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I think this only happens in PIE, if you package the level it will work ok. Frustrating, I know.

The way I get around it is have a loop waiting until I can see the player start, then I spawn the player, that works…

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Thank you for your response !.. Could you please be more elaborate on the method… I couldn’t follow :frowning:

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Put a player start in the level.

When you stream the level, run this:

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All that bad size means it you put the player start too low :slight_smile:

The player start has a collision volume ( you can see it ), you need to position it so that the volume is not touching anything.

Also try looking at your level with player collsion on:

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I think you might find your maze walls have crazy collision.

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Thank you for the detailed steps …This doesn’t seem to be working… I just found that … when I placed the player start it showed bad size … but when I hid the problematic maze sections the maze … the bad size went off … so I think there must something invisible some sorta collision which prevents the player to move… And so if I put the player high enough over the walls… he could walk… click here
do you know how to solve this? Thanks once again

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But it blocks the player from moving through the level… how to remove the collision? see here link

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See my thing above about collision.

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I saw your video and it looks like everything loaded. Can you check the collision view to see if that section of the floor has collision?

I’ve been doing a lot of level streaming work lately and I have not once seen this happen.

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Thank you… It’s Work For me.

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Has anyone found a native/in-house solution to this?

I’ve made it work, but surely there’s some functionality that has been tested up the wahzoo that serves this purpose.

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Must have written it a thousand times - DO NOT EVER TRUST THE ENGINE.

Perform a simple sweep collision check of the character capsule BEFORE you remove your loading screen.
Only allow the game to start (and thus remove your loading screen) IF/WHEN there is a contact.

This also potentially allows you to detect stupid net stuff, like characters getting moved by the server and starting under the world-map.