I have a blueprint that contains several static mesh components. I need to find the (world) position of the static meshes. The individual meshes are modelled such that they fit together perfectly without manually moving them in UE4, therefore I can’t just get the local offset (it is always 0).
I have tried to add Sockets to the
original meshes, but they are not
available in the blueprint (querying
all the sockets returns none at all
and in details panel, only the parent
socket shows up).
I have tried to get the vertex data.
I have allowed CPU access on the
static meshes, but when trying to
access them via “Get Section from
Static Mesh”, I don’t get any
sections at all, and thus also no
vertex data.
I have tried to calculate the bounds
of the mesh, but that always returns
0 for both min and max.
I have placed scene components into the blueprint now to help myself, but i’d still like to know an answer to the question, because I need to do this for several BPs that may contain arbitrary amounts of static mesh components.
As I said in my question, the Meshes are modelled such that the fit together withouth any translation in UE4. Therefore the relative location is 0 for all the static meshes
Yes, but that returns the position of the scene component under which my static meshes are set into the blueprint, too, because of the way the individual meshes are not model around their own center
Unreal stores all transforms in the origin of the mesh, so if you have modeled your static meshes to “be somewhere else” than the origin, then “getting the world position of the mesh” isn’t a meaningful sentence as it will only return the location of the origin, which isn’t useful to you.
I don’t think there are any simple way to do what you want to achieve without changing the actual meshes so that each of them has an origin in a meaningful location, instead of having every origin at a common zero.
“getting the world position of the mesh” isn’t a meaningful sentence as it will only return the location of the origin, which isn’t useful to you.
I realize that, which is why I tried vertex positions and Sockets. I have seen others work with vertex positions especially, but I don’t see why it works for some static meshes but not in my case. So far as I could find, you have to allow the CPU access to the static meshes, and then you can query them via getting a segment of the mesh. However as I mentioned, my static meshes don’t have any segments (or at least querying the number of segments returns 0), and I don’t know how to fix that.
Idk, as a temporary workaround you can put an additional invisible mesh into your mesh as a child, and get the world location of that. Not the best way though, but might work.
