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1. Re: animating a rotating ball

   

   Reply by alexworx · Sep 2018 · Home› Unreal Engine

   One more question for you. I have the ball inside and its animated correctly. How do I get the shadows to show up while its animating? What type of light and what do I need to set the light too. Thanks!

2. animating a rotating ball

   

   Topic by alexworx · Sep 2018 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Hi All, I am working on my first project in UE. I want to animate a ball moving in my scene up a ramp. I have successfully done that ( sort of ) with the ball animated along a spline. My issue is the ball does not rotate when it moves. My question is how do a get it to rotate while its moving along the spline? Or is there…

3. Re: animating a rotating ball

   

   Reply by alexworx · Sep 2018 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Thanks for the responses. I have to be honest I am not following your process rymbrant. I got the animation in successfully doing it with Obsura advice, although the ball is not rotating. I wired the rotation in max but it come through, I just have to look at that. 

4. Re: animating a rotating ball

   

   Reply by alexworx · Sep 2018 · Home› Unreal Engine

   When you say "skeletal animation" do you mean animate it in a another program and import it into UE?

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   Reply by Obscura · Sep 2018 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Its better to have a skeletal animation, unless you have a good reason to have it animated inside Unreal.

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   Reply by Obscura · Sep 2018 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Exactly.

7. Re: animating a rotating ball

   

   Reply by alexworx · Sep 2018 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Thanks guys for the help, appreciate it. I did some digging and found that I was actually getting shadows with my current light setup but they were just very weak. I didn't know about the physics assets so I found that and turned that on, will do a quick bake and see if that helps too. Yes I have been going through the doc…

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   Reply by Obscura · Sep 2018 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Yeah skeletal meshes can use capsule shadow, but it isnt absolutely necessary to use that method.. You guys can always just check out the official documentation if you arent sure about something. But basically you would make a physics asset for the mesh, and enable capsule shadows on the mesh.

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   Reply by Zablorg · Sep 2018 · Home› Unreal Engine

   I believe you would require dynamic lights in order for the lighting to be recalculated in real time. I don't know this off the top of my head, but I think you may also be able to optimize the shadow performance by giving the ball some kind of spherical shadow-casting volume, instead of using the mesh to cast shadow. (Can…