UDK - Attaching an object to the camera?

SirCalalot

Hi all,

I can't seem to find a solution to this little problem in UDK on the 'net and wondered if someone here could help.

I'm trying to attach a cylinder around the camera in UDK so that wherever the camera moves, the cylinder follows. (The cylinder has a scrolling rain texture on it if that helps you to visualise what I'm doing).

I have converted the static mesh to an InterpActor and 'Attached' it to the camera in its Properties as a 'Base'.



A green box appears around the object and a line connecting the two, but apart from that there seems to be no relation in translation. Moving the camera has no effect on the cylinder.

Is there something else that I need to do?

Cheers guys and gals

JamesWild

Do that in Kismet - the camera the player sees through probably isn't spawned until the game starts. Whatever camera you've connected it to there, is not the one you're looking through.

sprunghunt

the 'attach' function only works while you're running the game. So moving the camera object around in the editor viewport won't move the other object.

Also the camera object you have it attached to is not the player camera. That's a different thing.

SirCalalot

Cheers guys!
The camera is for a Matinee flythrough, so hopefully it will work in-game.
I'll test it now.

sprunghunt

SirCalalot wrote: »

Cheers guys!
The camera is for a Matinee flythrough, so hopefully it will work in-game.
I'll test it now.

attach should work in the matinee playback though.

SirCalalot

Yeah, I tried this last night, and it does work for the matinee playback, but the object rotates with the camera (even though 'Ignore Base Rotation' is set to True).

Thankfully, all is as it should be when the game is running.
It's just a shame that you can't have an accurate in-editor preview.