As a relative beginner to UE4, I thought I’d start with a small simple game project, such as Pong, to test the waters. At the moment I’m having some issues dealing with collisions. I’ve placed 4 cube shape meshes as walls for the playing field and created 2 blueprints: a pawn blueprint for the player and an actor blueprint for the ball. My concerns with the collisions are the following:
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For the player, I’m using the begin and end overlap events to detect if the player has reached the upper or lower walls, and set boolean variables accordingly. At first, I was convinced that the walls would automatically block the player from going out of bounds, since the player and the walls have their own meshes with colliders. Is there a simpler way to deal with these type of wall collisions?
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For the ball, I intended to use the component hit event (since I was planning on using the resulting ‘normal vector’). However, it seems that the event does not fire when it should. As I’ve seen suggested in a couple of posts, I’ve checked the “Simulation Generates Hit Events” parameter in the ball collider, but still nothing happens. Is there something rather obvious that I might be missing here?
Thanks in advance.