All,
I’m really stuck on this one, hopefully some kind soul can help me out here.
I have a river made with splines. I need to trace down the material so that I can produce the adequate effects (water footsteps, etc). The issue is that either collision does not work, or it works in a way that my character WALKS on the river (doesn’t sink in the water).
All the spline segments have the *SM_MW_WaterPlane *static mesh set on to them:
This static mesh SM_MW_WaterPlane has a simple simplified collision box and is set to ignore all collisions, besides the trace on a custom channel called “environment”:
The material of this mesh is set to have water as physical material:
Now, if I place this static mesh in the world and trace it from the character’s feet with:
Then the trace work BUT I experience what anticipated: my character walks on the spline. If I:
- Remove the “Enable Collision” on the spline segments.
- Remove the collision box of the static mesh.
Then the characters sinks in the river as expected, but the trace no longer works.
FYI: if I use the exact same mesh but instead of in a spline, manually set in the world, then everything works as expected: the character sinks in the river and the material of the Out Hit (of the trace here above) is correctly reported as “Water”.
Is this a known feature / bug of splines? How can I circumvent it? Any ideas on how to make this simple thing work?
Thank you,
Roberto.
