Can physics bodies drive the character manually with c++
I am trying to create mechanical movement of the character without animation, sort of procedural physical animation.
So I saw there is a physics body next to the skeletal one.
I’m still new to unreal.
This body is made of capsules"called aggregate physics bodies" shown in the image below.
As I understand these capsules are tied - binded to the bones(skeletal mesh parts)
If I move one of these capsules by code will it move the body, or move the skeleton arm bone and the bone move the arm for example of the character in a mecanical way.
Let’s say I create an actor class and use a function, something of the sort that is meant to respond to key bindings.
void AMovement::ForwardMove(float value)
{
if (value)
{
AddMovementInput(GetActorForwardVector(), value);
}
}
Or I can use anything else, a function with a Frotator with a vector to move things, spin things just for testing to see if components of the character are moving like arms legs and so on in a mechanical way.
So I press a key binding (keyboard button) and the capsule that I called (invoked) in my C++ code moves forward and moves the bone and the arm with it ?
How would I get access to the capsules ? with C++ This is the hard part, how to call on these components, are they components, they fall under some UComponent class ? This is the hard part, the rest I can manage once I know how to call on what I need, I can create some functions with various parameters to try to create a mechanical locomotion system.