Problem with controled destruction

Lord Fryingpan

I've been trying to create a level using UDK where the player would destroy parts of the environnement to progress.

One of my ideas was to create a destructible pillar that would create a bridge once its base is destroyed. I therefore created a fracture object, but it appears that once destroyed, the player passes right through the broken chunks.

I tried something else and made a static mesh affected by physics, and put it on top of a fracture object. But this time, the base, once fracture, retained its collision box, and the static mesh stayed hanging in the air.

I tried to tweak some options in the fracture object, but I didn't manage to make my level work. Do you have any idea how I could make it happen ?

sprunghunt

I would not use physics to do this as simulations are too unreliable.

I would animate the pillar being destroyed using matinee. To control the collision you could enable and disable the collision on some blocking volumes placed in the world.

Oniram

or you may even be able to create some sort of a physics based animation in max/maya, and import that and call the animation to happen when damage is given through kismet. and then toggle the volumes as sprunghunt said