How do developers approach swinging from ropes and climbing on poles etc?
I have experience with the character movement component used for walking, running, falling and flying. But what happens when I want the character to be attached to objects and move with them, like swinging from a rope, or move along them in a restricted way, such as moving up and down a pole?
Is there perhaps some material that provides a conceptual overview of restricted and attached movement? How do people usually achieve this in UE5?
Hey there @volumetrix! Here are a couple resources that go over some methods of traversal for static poles, ropes, and a bonus for walking along splines. These are more for the mechanics and don’t all go over the visuals. Hope this helps!
Here’s a tutorial for climbing up and down a static pole with full rotation.
A tutorial for rope swing, however this one seems more physics based than I believe you’d want for your use case. Still a good resource however.
Lastly, a tutorial for locking a character’s movement to a spline. This might be more in line with how you would handle walking along pipes with variation:
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