Skeletal Mesh component suspended in air

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I’ve recently got a mesh that I want to use physics collion with. Currently I have a working physics asset and I can spawn in game and it looks fine.

For some reason the mesh seems to be suspended in the air. I’ve set it up like so:

SetCharacterMesh(CreateDefaultSubobject<USkeletalMeshComponent>(TEXT("CharacterMesh1P")));
	GetCharacterMesh()->bCastDynamicShadow = false;
	GetCharacterMesh()->CastShadow = false;

	SetRootComponent(GetCharacterMesh());

	// Create a CameraComponent	
	FirstPersonCameraComponent = CreateDefaultSubobject<UCameraComponent>(TEXT("FirstPersonCamera"));
	FirstPersonCameraComponent->SetupAttachment(GetCharacterMesh());
	FirstPersonCameraComponent->RelativeLocation = FVector(0.4F, 42.0F, 174.0F);
	FirstPersonCameraComponent->bUsePawnControlRotation = true;

I’m not sure if the issue is with the meshes collision or how I’ve set it up. All I want is the mesh component to be the root, with my skeletal mesh.

As I have never used a physics asset before I’m assuming it’s something I’ve missed or incorrectly set up.

Currently I’m using the maniquin model from the third person starter set.

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So I put it back to using the Capsule as the RootComponent and it’s fine but I still don’t want this, as I need the skeletal mesh to dectect hits on a per bone basis.

Does anyone know why it’s not working or ifit can’t work with just the pyhsics asset?

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Keep the Capsule. You can do per Bone Collision test separatly. Just make sure whatever performs the hit test ignores the Capsules Collision Settings =)