Rigid Body Physics behaves correctly with the Physics Asset, but it doesn’t seem to work when applied for Actors

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Hello everyone!

I am having an issue where I have a Physics Asset which simulates the tongue of my Skeletal Mesh. When placing the Skeletal mesh in my world, these “tongue physics” (I know this sounds weird) simulate correctly. Here’s a video to demonstrate This:

However, when I create an Actor as the Pawn Class and place it in my world, I have some issues. As you can see in this video, Skeletal Mesh’s tongue for my actor sticks out with no simulation at all:

MY CONFIGURATION
My setup is as follows:

  1. My Skeletal Mesh is Using a Post Process Animation Blueprint:
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  2. This is what my Post Process Animation Blueprint looks like - There is no other logic in this Animation Blueprint aside from what I’m showing in this screenshot:
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  3. My Skeletal Mesh is also using a Physics Asset - This is only a physics Asset that simulates the tongue:
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  4. As for my Actor from the second video at the beginning of this post, this is what that blueprint looks like - And just as a note, I’ve tried using different Animation classes but none have produced any results :frowning:
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Any help would be much Appreciated! If you need me to provide any additional context to my setup please let me know and I’ll be happy to provide it :slight_smile:

Sincerely gamers,

POTATOGAMER

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So just to provide another update… It seems like I rigid body a little closer to working but has a serious issue. As you can see, I now have the tongue simulating, but it is EXTREMELY small:

Another thing to note is that this stretching/warping issue only happens when a bone’s physics are set to “Simulated”. If I change these bones to “Kinematic”, then this issue no longer happens.

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Making the Alpha value for this Rigid Body Node smaller makes the tongue bigger, but there is little to no movement as it should be:
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I’m sort of perplexed here… Does anyone know what could be causing this sort of size/stretching issue?