S1.13 Possess the player and create a camera
Lesson Summary
In this lesson, we covered:
- Add a camera to our character.
- Set up the camera to fit the needs of our game genre.
⚠️ If you took a break between the previous lesson and this one, when you open your character blueprint you may find that it looks different than the video. Just click on Open Full Blueprint Editor and you will return to the normal blueprint editor. This happens everytime you create a blueprint and dont modify anything inside it beside the values of the properties already in it.
⚠️ If your character falls through the map and doesnt collide with the meshes created before, its because in UE 5.6 update the default value of the Collision Complexity field was changed.
To fix this, right click on the mesh and select Edit [NameOfTheMesh].
Inside the static mesh editor, go to the details panel at the right and search for Collision Complexity and set the value to Use Complex Collision As Simple.
This will fix the issue, and it must be done for each mesh created with the modeling tools that you wish to use as a terrain.
Why did Unreal Engine make the change? Performance reasons.
Simple collisions perform better because complex collision check each triangle of the mesh to determine if the collision exists. If the mesh has too many triangles, then it will bring the performance down.
Do we care? No, because we are only using the modeling tools for prototyping and getting a better grasp of the scale of our level. In the next lessons, we will change the meshes that we use as our ground for a landscape, which is the tool that professional studios use to build their maps.