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@Slavical

Awesome! I’ll try to have a quick video up by the end of the week, and sometime after that I’ll make an official vlog. The vlogs will be my encouragement to keep going.

Also, something that I noticed…your stairs and hallway brace meshes (three meshes in total) for polaris use complex collision as simple. The issue here is that when I use a line trace to get the surface type of that mesh, it is always going to return NULL because the line trace looks for simple collision. I have tested using a complex line trace, which looks for complex collisions, but that didn’t work. I believe I can get around it by setting every mesh to complex collision as simple and set the surface type in the material, but I don’t like doing that because, in theory, two meshes can use the same material but have different surface types; so I like to set the surface type within the mesh instead. Also, complex line tracing is more taxing than simple line tracing.

How hard would it be to fix the collisions of these three meshes in blender? Since you’re not developing anymore, I would feel bad asking you to make those changes, so I am willing to do it myself if needed.

Hey Slavical!

Sounds good, looking forward to seeing it. =)

I’ve had to use complex as simple on occasion due to a bug with collision in 4.16 and 4.17 where it doesn’t always work properly. There was no clear indication of why, and often times it would be random. (i.e. it’d work fine at first, then upon reimport if I modified the actual mesh it would stop working. Then even updating collision from the ground up wouldn’t reflect changes in engine.) The creation of the collision isn’t difficult at all, and if I’m not mistaken upon export you should have the original simple collision exported alongside it. The tricky thing is whether UE4 bugs it upon import. I haven’t experienced this issue in a project I’m working on in 4.20 but back when I was working on UE4 products one thing I always heard/read from customers was they wanted as early a supported version as possible which is why I stuck with 4.16 as my usual base version.

But to answer your question it shouldn’t be difficult. Oddly enough I believe I’ve had that bug happen to the stairs in Command Center too, and had to ultimately use Complex as Simple in there as well.

Shoot me a PM if the original collision doesn’t export with the asset when you try to export it BTW.