Hey guys. Got a few issues here. I’m trying to create a hovership that only runs on a certain distance from the ground and works off of thrusters that can be placed around the model. That, unfortunately, has encountered a few snags.
I’ve been through the sparse available documentation, double, triple and quadruple checked the physics - it’s all working… I think - and just can’t find the problem.
First up is the blueprint. I’ve got a feeling it’s either not firing properly, or something’s wrong with the physics, either way, it won’t update the actor location properly.
For instance, if I stick it close above the surface (say a bsp mesh) and simulate or play, it’ll print out Less Than, which is what I want, it means it’s less than 1000 units off the ground, and should be setting the thruster to 1000 to compensate (Obviously I want something that compensates relative to distance to ground, but small steps, small steps.).
If I start the mesh more than a 1000 units off the ground, it’ll print out greater than every tick. That’s cool too. It’ll even fire the respective particles.
The problem is that when the ship drops due to gravity and reaches the point where it should be printing out less than, it’ll not do so. It just continues printing out greater than.
To further confuse things, the particle emitter, which should be spawning at the relative location of the physics thruster (attached to a socket just underneath the bottom of the ship skeletal mesh), instead spawns at the relative location of the ship… If the ship was located at 0,0,0.
As you can tell, I’ve tried grabbing the location of the ship on startup, which basically did nothing. Maybe I picked the wrong node, I don’t know, still learning blueprint.
Now, I know the ship is big, so it’s really heavy, the physics material has been made to be as light as possible, but it’s still heavy, but changing the thruster power has no effect at all, even with ludicriously large numbers.
So anybody got an idea that could help me out?
