Mesh parented to Skeletal mesh offset during runtime

BagOfPepto · January 10, 2026, 9:41pm

in the viewport of my character, the mesh is in the correct position:

however, at runtime, the mesh is completely in the wrong place. i’m not adjusting anything in the skeletal mesh at runtime, so it should be exactly where i placed it. I’m completely stumped.

it also seems to move with the camera? when i look up the mesh is here:

when i look down the mesh is here:

Also to note, when i eject from my character, it works as expected:

I really help someone can help me out here. I’ve been using UE for many years and never encountered this. Thanks

Whols75 · January 10, 2026, 10:12pm

Why don’t you try using sockets over the many years?

Hai_Nes · January 11, 2026, 6:14am

You may have the mesh parented to the camera instead, like Whols75said, use a socket on your skeleton hand and ‘preview’ the location of the mesh parented using adjustments and it should work out. Hope that helps!

BagOfPepto · January 12, 2026, 7:33pm

You can see in the first image it was attached to hand_r.

Anyway, I figured out the problem. On the camera, theres two Checkboxes:

‘Enable First Person Field Of View’ and ‘Enable First Person Scale’.

Disabling these fixed the issue. These must be a new addition since i’ve never had this issue before