Hi, I’m new to UE4 and am hoping someone can help me get past this blocker.
In my example I have an actor in the foreground - it could be a chair. In the background there would have a plane that lines up perfectly with the bounds of the chair. This would update on tick, so that if the chair were to rotate, then the plane would rescale accordingly.
I am thinking that you would need to draw an imaginary box around the chair to get the boundary coordinates, and then combine with the distance of the plane from the chair to scale accordingly. If this is the right way to go about it I have no idea.
Images attached should demonstrate the intention clearly - white area is the plane, black is the rest of the scene.
Thanks
Addendum: I am more interested in recreating this effect, than trying to force the specific solution I gave above - e.g. UMG/post-processing/etc are all valid routes.
For anyone trying to achieve the same outcome - I managed to get the result above, but through a totally different method.
I ended up removing the plane entirely and using a LineTracer to sweep inside the sphere radius of the target mesh - once from each direction - until a collision was detected. This value was then projected to screen space and passed to a UMG border blueprint that altered its size. My thoughts were that by using a 2D, screenspace solution it wouldn’t be tripped up by pivot locations, scale, rotating, transformations, etc.
Hello, nice to hear you find out the solution. I have a situation something like this. In my case; let’s say there are two cylinders. One of them bigger then the other one and the smaller one is inside of it. I need to scale the big one until it hits to smaller mesh in every position. For example if the left side’s distance is more than the right side, then it has to scale faster from left side. Can you help me with that?
