Setting up swimming character

Add socket to mesh

• the system uses an Actor in witch is located the pontoon of the buoyancy component that it is used to do useful calculations and change swimming behaviors.
• this actor is attached to a socket named “root_pontoon”
• (I use an actor for 2 reasons, 1 we need a way to trigger the initial overlap on begin play 2 we can’t attach pontoon to the mesh)
• I usually add the socket in the upper body, or spine bone.

AC_CharacterMovementExtension

In the char movement extension, there are swimming settings that we need to modify for each character class:

Use or create a child Blueprint from A_Pontoon

• The pontoon radius needs to correspond to the size of the character’s body.

so you might need to change in A_Pontoon radius settings for both capsule collision and Pontoon radius based on the dimension of the character.

• in the A_pontoon there is a buoyancy component in there is a structure where we can set the pontoon settings called “Buoyancy Data”