So much for VR ready...Why the heck don't attached (child) Actors have their own collision?

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Apparently if you attach an actor to a socket all of the its collision information gets ignored. From what I have read no sweeps are performed on child actors.

Like WTF? My entire idea revolves around manually reloading a gun in VR. I need the gun, attached to a hand, and the magazine, attached to another hand, to collide with each other. But as soon as I attach anything to a hand their collision stops working.

Does anyone know a blueprint work around, fix or has a dev post saying they will add a feature that is 100% required for VR.

For those that say it is unimportant.

How would you attach a baseball bat to a hand and let it hit, well, anything?

Unity allows this, maybe that is why most VR projects are on Unity?

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If you want multiple actors to be joined together with their own physics, you will need to attach them via physics constraints.
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You should then be able to create a trigger around the mag-well of your weapon that detects when a magazine is present etc.
This is no different to examples you may have seen that have physical firearm interactions.
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