I started with the 2D side scrolling template and noticed it’s using a capsule for collision. I’ve got a blueprint that has a flipbook in it (much like the example).
I’m making a top down shooter and don’t want a capsule for collision…I want the ship always remaining aloft and not falling to the ground and I’d like to use a different, tighter shape as a hit box. I can’t see a way to either remove the capsule, or to essentially “ignore” it. I noticed that if I change the collision presets to NoCollision I fall through the scene. I also don’t seem to be able to set the capsule’s half-height to anything less than 100. Any ideas on how to approach this? Thanks.
I know what you are talking about. I am making a side scrolling 2D shooter. The acharacter class has gravity, but you can disable the gravity by putting the gravity variable to 0.0f. I had the same issue as you and ended up using the top down shooter with the little spaceship as my starter template. It uses a pawn so there are no gravity issues. Also you do not need to have a collision box .
You might have to change some more code in your constructor to setup your new root component and reattach components to your root.
I haven’t looked into this too much, so there might be a way to actually change what type of component it should spawned with the ObjectInitializer. Try checking it’s other functions.
Alright I took your advice after some digging around that seemed like removing the capsule was a bad idea. The problem for me was that I’m using a Paper2D flipbook so I was confused at first as to how to go about doing it since from the Paper2D example it makes your character derive from PaperCharacter which derives from Actor.
What I did was made my ship derive instead from APawn. I then copied what PaperCharacter does and added this to my ship’s header file:
UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere, BlueprintReadWrite, Category=Animation, meta = (AllowPrivateAccess = "true"))
class UPaperFlipbookComponent* ShipDefaultAnimation;
I then copied most of the lines from PaperCharacter.cpp’s constructor (please see the source, it’s too much to post) obviously replacing the reference to “Sprite” with my own flipbook component. I also didn’t do the line that says:
Sprite->AttachParent = RootComponent
Instead, I did:
RootComponent = ShipDefaultAnimation
to replace the root component with the flipbook component so I didn’t have some random empty scene component in my blueprint. Then I just did a ->SetFlipbook on my ship animation and I was all set. No more capsule, no more gravity, no more weirdness, and the rest of my movement and visuals looks the same. Thanks for the inspiration!
