See if this delivers:
- you can have a plane to intersect with, its origin is where the pedestal is and the normal is camera dependent
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we then trace from the camera towards the cursor projected into the world, eventually hitting that plane (it’s of infinite size, well almost)
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this allows you to place something at that intersection:
Script (should, ideally, be in the Player Controller):
Notes:
- do not use Set Actor Location for this - look into PhysicsHandle Component
- the physics will not act right out of the box, on the contrary - it’ll be the very opposite of Zen
– increase tensor scale, angular dampening and play with mass
– crank up position & velocity solvers, maybe even enable CCD
– look into physical materials, especially restitution
– depenetration is another element - it controls how rapidly objects get ejected when their geometries intersect. Start around 100 and see how it behaves, adjust.
Tweaking will be required.
There might be a reasonable alternative to this using constraints.