[Problem] No working Collision Meshes in ARK Dev Kit

Development Modding ARK: Survival Evolved
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Hi friends :slight_smile:

I am in big trouble: I can’t apply collision meshes to my assets/meshes.

I am working with Blender 2.74.

In Unreal Engine 4 it is working well! But in ARK Dev Kit the same meshes have no collision. Nevermind, what method i use. (Aply simple box, apply convex hull, or apply auto collision in ARK Dev Kit).

My WIP Mod “” is thwarted by this issue.

Best regards

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Why not just use their existing presets for something similar? (maybe use the rock’s collision?) Or have it generate a new collision when importing the mesh? You should get an option when importing a new mesh to have it generate a collision for it. If you do that, then it should be accurate enough :slight_smile:

Edit: you are using .fbx or .obj when importing?

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As you can read, i tried 3 different methods, followed the tutorial from fighter5347:

  • Making in Blender a simple Box UCX_mesh and export as .fbx file. And of course import it as such. I tried different settings as mentioned above while importing: Enable/disable “Auto Collision” & enable/disable “One Convex Hull Per UCX”. Nothing have an impact.

  • Making in Blender a Convex Hull UCX_mesh and export as .fbx file. and the same as the line above.

  • Doing nothing with collision in Blender, export as .fbx file and set “Auto-Collision” to “true”. At the Static Mesh editor (I still try Static Mesh only, that’s easier for me as a newby in any Game Engine) i can see a Auto Collision Mesh, but it is not working. So then, I tried to set the Auto Collision setting to “Collision Complex as Simple” and/or “Collision Simple as Complex”, but nothing works.

BUT Doing the last step at Unreal Engine 4, it works like a charme. But not at the ARK Dev Kit. Why? There seems to work nothing for me? Or is there a mistake i ingored the whole time?

I never export/Import as .obj in this case. Should i try? :slight_smile:

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EDIT: With .obj is not possible to enable any collision mesh. In any way.

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Change the Collision Profile of your StaticMeshActor to “BlockAll”. Unlike Stock UE4, we made StaticMeshActors have no collision type by default :wink:

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Woah … thank you very much!

I’ve really doubted gradually to my brain. :cool:

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Now this thread can be closed. gave the solution :slight_smile: Thank you again.

CLOSED.