Player getting stuck in wall

[creekmonkey]

I thought I had seen this problem addressed before in the forum but I have searched and cant find the post.

I have a StaticMesh (building created in milkshape), anytime the player bumps into a wall he gets stuck there, and the only way to get free is re-start the game. The player himself is not inside the wall, but his bounding box is. Any solutions or suggestions?

[Jay]

It would be good to know the preferences set in the StaticMesh entity...

[creekmonkey]

Sorry couldnt upload a picture to link to, but here is the static mesh prefrences

ActorRotation........000
Alpha ................. 255.0
Backfaced............ False
BoneName........... <null>
ColCheckLevel...... 2
CompLight.......... False
CompLightSm...... true
CompSunLight .... False
EntityName
FillColor........... 128 128 128
Model ............. <null>
origin.............. 64 -240 0
Scale............... 1
StaticShadow..... False
szActorFile........ main3.act
scActorName
UseFillColor....... False
VisCheckLevel.... False
Zsort.............. False

[zany_001]

Possibly turn on backfaces? Or increase collision detection?

[creekmonkey]

Thanks zany. Setting Backfaced to True solved the problem

[zany_001]

No problem. My guess is the Bbox could go in the wall one way, but not the other. Sorta like the tarbaby.

[creekmonkey]

I THINK several factors caused the problem....scaleing the actor down to .25 was probably the most significant factor. But the walls were also very thin, also I deleted the top and bottom faces of the walls which could have contributed to the problem.