Simple waveless Buoyancy

[BluAstronaut (SinistaSuave)]

All i want is this platform to ‘float’ on this completely flat water. I need the platform to ‘bob’ to the players weight if they step on it. I can not find a single tutorial on how to do buoyancy this simple. Since there is no waves would there be a way to code the platform and ocean plane to add simple buoyancy?

[ClockworkOcean]

So I just have a collision box and plane:

It begins like this:

which gives the appearance of floating:

[ClockworkOcean]

The step on code is:

The BP should start with tick disabled.

[BluAstronaut (SinistaSuave)]

Could you explain why the Stepping blueprint is casting to Pawn instead of Third person character? Thanks for the help!

[ClockworkOcean]

It will work with any pawn, otherwise you have to cast to a specific character type. It doesn’t really matter.