APEX Destruction using KActors

Lee3dee

I've been struggling for a few days trying to get this to work, wondered if someone may have a solution I haven't thought about

I made a cube, which has been taken into Nvidia Physx Lab, and brought in as an APEX model that breaks into pieces. The Ball is a KActor, when I shoot the ball it bounces off the the apex mesh.


However, shooting it with a projectile breaks the mesh no problem as I show in the video.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXo17liGgK0[/ame]

I also tried triggering a radial Impulse when the cube is touched or takes damage, but this didn't seem to work either.

I have been looking around the net, and haven't found any way to make Apex assets take damage from KActors instead of projectiles. Even after messing with the collision properties.

I did find a way in Kismet to trigger the cube to break apart using the DummyWeaponFire node.

I may have to go this route if what I am trying to do isn't possible.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxZm0ijqYwQ[/ame]

I have a hidden ball (source) which is firing at the cube to make it break apart.

Anyways, for what I want to do, setting up kismet for multiple instances would prove to be a mass undertaking, it nice to have KActors interact with APEX meshes or something along those lines. Open to suggestions

Oniram

id suggest write your own actor class.. extending from KActor, and have it apply damage on touch or bump. id assume thats whats happening with the projectile anyway.

Lee3dee

yeah I posted this question also on the udk forums and they suggested making a custom KActor class. I just need to learn how to do that . Learning unrealscript. lol