unreal.PrimitiveComponent

class unreal.PrimitiveComponent(outer=None, name='None')

Bases: unreal.SceneComponent

PrimitiveComponents are SceneComponents that contain or generate some sort of geometry, generally to be rendered or used as collision data. There are several subclasses for the various types of geometry, but the most common by far are the ShapeComponents (Capsule, Sphere, Box), StaticMeshComponent, and SkeletalMeshComponent. ShapeComponents generate geometry that is used for collision detection but are not rendered, while StaticMeshComponents and SkeletalMeshComponents contain pre-built geometry that is rendered, but can also be used for collision detection.

C++ Source:

• Module: Engine

• File: PrimitiveComponent.h

Editor Properties: (see get_editor_property/set_editor_property)

• absolute_location (bool): [Read-Write] If RelativeLocation should be considered relative to the world, rather than the parent

• absolute_rotation (bool): [Read-Write] If RelativeRotation should be considered relative to the world, rather than the parent

• absolute_scale (bool): [Read-Write] If RelativeScale3D should be considered relative to the world, rather than the parent

• affect_distance_field_lighting (bool): [Read-Write] Controls whether the primitive should affect dynamic distance field lighting methods. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true. *

• affect_dynamic_indirect_lighting (bool): [Read-Write] Controls whether the primitive should inject light into the Light Propagation Volume. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true. *

• allow_cull_distance_volume (bool): [Read-Write] Whether to accept cull distance volumes to modify cached cull distance.

• always_create_physics_state (bool): [Read-Write] Indicates if we’d like to create physics state all the time (for collision and simulation). If you set this to false, it still will create physics state if collision or simulation activated. This can help performance if you’d like to avoid overhead of creating physics state when triggers

• apply_impulse_on_damage (bool): [Read-Write] True for damage to this component to apply physics impulse, false to opt out of these impulses.

• asset_user_data (Array(AssetUserData)): [Read-Write] Array of user data stored with the component

• auto_activate (bool): [Read-Write] Whether the component is activated at creation or must be explicitly activated.

• batch_imposters_as_instances (bool): [Read-Write] If true, the proxy generation process will use instancing to render this imposter

• body_instance (BodyInstance): [Read-Write] Physics scene information for this component, holds a single rigid body with multiple shapes.

• bounds_scale (float): [Read-Write] Scales the bounds of the object. This is useful when using World Position Offset to animate the vertices of the object outside of its bounds. Warning: Increasing the bounds of an object will reduce performance and shadow quality! Currently only used by StaticMeshComponent and SkeletalMeshComponent.

• cached_max_draw_distance (float): [Read-Only] The distance to cull this primitive at. A CachedMaxDrawDistance of 0 indicates that the primitive should not be culled by distance.

• can_character_step_up_on (CanBeCharacterBase): [Read-Write] Determine whether a Character can step up onto this component. This controls whether they can try to step up on it when they bump in to it, not whether they can walk on it after landing on it. FWalkableSlopeOverride:

• can_ever_affect_navigation (bool): [Read-Write] Whether this component can potentially influence navigation

• cast_cinematic_shadow (bool): [Read-Write] Whether this component should cast shadows from lights that have bCastShadowsFromCinematicObjectsOnly enabled. This is useful for characters in a cinematic with special cinematic lights, where the cost of shadowmap rendering of the environment is undesired.

• cast_contact_shadow (bool): [Read-Write] Whether the object should cast contact shadows. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true.

• cast_dynamic_shadow (bool): [Read-Write] Controls whether the primitive should cast shadows in the case of non precomputed shadowing. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true. *

• cast_far_shadow (bool): [Read-Write] When enabled, the component will be rendering into the far shadow cascades (only for directional lights).

• cast_hidden_shadow (bool): [Read-Write] If true, the primitive will cast shadows even if bHidden is true. Controls whether the primitive should cast shadows when hidden. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true.

• cast_inset_shadow (bool): [Read-Write] Whether this component should create a per-object shadow that gives higher effective shadow resolution. Useful for cinematic character shadowing. Assumed to be enabled if bSelfShadowOnly is enabled.

• cast_shadow (bool): [Read-Write] Controls whether the primitive component should cast a shadow or not.

• cast_shadow_as_two_sided (bool): [Read-Write] Whether this primitive should cast dynamic shadows as if it were a two sided material.

• cast_static_shadow (bool): [Read-Write] Whether the object should cast a static shadow from shadow casting lights. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true.

• cast_volumetric_translucent_shadow (bool): [Read-Write] Whether the object should cast a volumetric translucent shadow. Volumetric translucent shadows are useful for primitives with smoothly changing opacity like particles representing a volume, But have artifacts when used on highly opaque surfaces.

• component_tags (Array(Name)): [Read-Write] Array of tags that can be used for grouping and categorizing. Can also be accessed from scripting.

• custom_depth_stencil_value (int32): [Read-Write] Optionally write this 0-255 value to the stencil buffer in CustomDepth pass (Requires project setting or r.CustomDepth == 3)

• custom_depth_stencil_write_mask (RendererStencilMask): [Read-Write] Mask used for stencil buffer writes.

• custom_primitive_data (CustomPrimitiveData): [Read-Write] Optional user defined default values for the custom primitive data of this primitive

• detail_mode (DetailMode): [Read-Write] If detail mode is >= system detail mode, primitive won’t be rendered.

• editable_when_inherited (bool): [Read-Write] True if this component can be modified when it was inherited from a parent actor class

• enable_auto_lod_generation (bool): [Read-Write] If true, and if World setting has bEnableHierarchicalLOD equal to true, then this component will be included when generating a Proxy mesh for the parent Actor

• exclude_for_specific_hlod_levels (Array(int32)): [Read-Write] Which specific HLOD levels this component should be excluded from

• exclude_from_light_attachment_group (bool): [Read-Write] If set, then it overrides any bLightAttachmentsAsGroup set in a parent.

• fill_collision_underneath_for_navmesh (bool): [Read-Write] If set, navmesh will not be generated under the surface of the geometry

• force_mip_streaming (bool): [Read-Write] If true, forces mips for textures used by this component to be resident when this component’s level is loaded.

• generate_overlap_events (bool): [Read-Write] Generate Overlap Events

• hidden_in_game (bool): [Read-Write] Whether to hide the primitive in game, if the primitive is Visible.

• ignore_radial_force (bool): [Read-Write] Will ignore radial forces applied to this component.

• ignore_radial_impulse (bool): [Read-Write] Will ignore radial impulses applied to this component.

• indirect_lighting_cache_quality (IndirectLightingCacheQuality): [Read-Write] Quality of indirect lighting for Movable primitives. This has a large effect on Indirect Lighting Cache update time.

• is_editor_only (bool): [Read-Write] If true, the component will be excluded from non-editor builds

• ld_max_draw_distance (float): [Read-Write] Max draw distance exposed to LDs. The real max draw distance is the min (disregarding 0) of this and volumes affecting this object.

• light_attachments_as_group (bool): [Read-Write] Whether to light this component and any attachments as a group. This only has effect on the root component of an attachment tree. When enabled, attached component shadowing settings like bCastInsetShadow, bCastVolumetricTranslucentShadow, etc, will be ignored. This is useful for improving performance when multiple movable components are attached together.

• lighting_channels (LightingChannels): [Read-Write] Channels that this component should be in. Lights with matching channels will affect the component. These channels only apply to opaque materials, direct lighting, and dynamic lighting and shadowing.

• lightmap_type (LightmapType): [Read-Write] Controls the type of lightmap used for this component.

• lpv_bias_multiplier (float): [Read-Write] Multiplier used to scale the Light Propagation Volume light injection bias, to reduce light bleeding. Set to 0 for no bias, 1 for default or higher for increased biasing (e.g. for thin geometry such as walls)

• min_draw_distance (float): [Read-Write] The minimum distance at which the primitive should be rendered, measured in world space units from the center of the primitive’s bounding sphere to the camera position.

• mobility (ComponentMobility): [Read-Write] How often this component is allowed to move, used to make various optimizations. Only safe to set in constructor.

• multi_body_overlap (bool): [Read-Write] If true, this component will generate individual overlaps for each overlapping physics body if it is a multi-body component. When false, this component will generate only one overlap, regardless of how many physics bodies it has and how many of them are overlapping another component/body. This flag has no influence on single body components.

• never_distance_cull (bool): [Read-Write] When enabled this object will not be culled by distance. This is ignored if a child of a HLOD.

• on_begin_cursor_over (ComponentBeginCursorOverSignature): [Read-Write] Event called when the mouse cursor is moved over this component and mouse over events are enabled in the player controller

• on_clicked (ComponentOnClickedSignature): [Read-Write] Event called when the left mouse button is clicked while the mouse is over this component and click events are enabled in the player controller

• on_component_activated (ActorComponentActivatedSignature): [Read-Write] Called when the component has been activated, with parameter indicating if it was from a reset

• on_component_begin_overlap (ComponentBeginOverlapSignature): [Read-Write] Event called when something starts to overlaps this component, for example a player walking into a trigger. For events when objects have a blocking collision, for example a player hitting a wall, see ‘Hit’ events. Both this component and the other one must have GetGenerateOverlapEvents() set to true to generate overlap events.: When receiving an overlap from another object’s movement, the directions of ‘Hit.Normal’ and ‘Hit.ImpactNormal’ will be adjusted to indicate force from the other object against this object.:

• on_component_deactivated (ActorComponentDeactivateSignature): [Read-Write] Called when the component has been deactivated

• on_component_end_overlap (ComponentEndOverlapSignature): [Read-Write] Event called when something stops overlapping this component Both this component and the other one must have GetGenerateOverlapEvents() set to true to generate overlap events.:

• on_component_hit (ComponentHitSignature): [Read-Write] Event called when a component hits (or is hit by) something solid. This could happen due to things like Character movement, using Set Location with ‘sweep’ enabled, or physics simulation. For events when objects overlap (e.g. walking into a trigger) see the ‘Overlap’ event. For collisions during physics simulation to generate hit events, ‘Simulation Generates Hit Events’ must be enabled for this component.: When receiving a hit from another object’s movement, the directions of ‘Hit.Normal’ and ‘Hit.ImpactNormal’ will be adjusted to indicate force from the other object against this object.: NormalImpulse will be filled in for physics-simulating bodies, but will be zero for swept-component blocking collisions.:

• on_component_sleep (ComponentSleepSignature): [Read-Write] Event called when the underlying physics objects is put to sleep

• on_component_wake (ComponentWakeSignature): [Read-Write] Event called when the underlying physics objects is woken up

• on_end_cursor_over (ComponentEndCursorOverSignature): [Read-Write] Event called when the mouse cursor is moved off this component and mouse over events are enabled in the player controller

• on_input_touch_begin (ComponentOnInputTouchBeginSignature): [Read-Write] Event called when a touch input is received over this component when touch events are enabled in the player controller

• on_input_touch_end (ComponentOnInputTouchEndSignature): [Read-Write] Event called when a touch input is released over this component when touch events are enabled in the player controller

• on_input_touch_enter (ComponentBeginTouchOverSignature): [Read-Write] Event called when a finger is moved over this component when touch over events are enabled in the player controller

• on_input_touch_leave (ComponentEndTouchOverSignature): [Read-Write] Event called when a finger is moved off this component when touch over events are enabled in the player controller

• on_released (ComponentOnReleasedSignature): [Read-Write] Event called when the left mouse button is released while the mouse is over this component click events are enabled in the player controller

• only_owner_see (bool): [Read-Write] If this is True, this component will only be visible when the view actor is the component’s owner, directly or indirectly.

• owner_no_see (bool): [Read-Write] If this is True, this component won’t be visible when the view actor is the component’s owner, directly or indirectly.

• physics_volume_changed_delegate (PhysicsVolumeChanged): [Read-Write] Delegate that will be called when PhysicsVolume has been changed *

• primary_component_tick (ActorComponentTickFunction): [Read-Write] Main tick function for the Component

• receive_mobile_csm_shadows (bool): [Read-Write] Mobile only: If disabled this component will not receive CSM shadows. (Components that do not receive CSM may have reduced shading cost)

• receives_decals (bool): [Read-Write] Whether the primitive receives decals.

• relative_location (Vector): [Read-Write] Location of the component relative to its parent

• relative_rotation (Rotator): [Read-Write] Rotation of the component relative to its parent

• relative_scale3d (Vector): [Read-Write] Non-uniform scaling of the component relative to its parent. Note that scaling is always applied in local space (no shearing etc)

• render_custom_depth (bool): [Read-Write] If true, this component will be rendered in the CustomDepth pass (usually used for outlines)

• render_in_depth_pass (bool): [Read-Write] If true, this component will be rendered in the depth pass even if it’s not rendered in the main pass

• render_in_main_pass (bool): [Read-Write] If true, this component will be rendered in the main pass (z prepass, basepass, transparency)

• replicate_physics_to_autonomous_proxy (bool): [Read-Write] True if physics should be replicated to autonomous proxies. This should be true for

  server-authoritative simulations, and false for client authoritative simulations.

• replicates (bool): [Read-Write] Is this component currently replicating? Should the network code consider it for replication? Owning Actor must be replicating first!

• return_material_on_move (bool): [Read-Write] If true, component sweeps will return the material in their hit result. MoveComponent(), FHitResult:

• runtime_virtual_textures (Array(RuntimeVirtualTexture)): [Read-Write] Array of runtime virtual textures into which we draw the mesh for this actor. The material also needs to be set up to output to a virtual texture.

• self_shadow_only (bool): [Read-Write] When enabled, the component will only cast a shadow on itself and not other components in the world. This is especially useful for first person weapons, and forces bCastInsetShadow to be enabled.

• should_update_physics_volume (bool): [Read-Write] Whether or not the cached PhysicsVolume this component overlaps should be updated when the component is moved. GetPhysicsVolume():

• single_sample_shadow_from_stationary_lights (bool): [Read-Write] Whether the whole component should be shadowed as one from stationary lights, which makes shadow receiving much cheaper. When enabled shadowing data comes from the volume lighting samples precomputed by Lightmass, which are very sparse. This is currently only used on stationary directional lights.

• trace_complex_on_move (bool): [Read-Write] If true, component sweeps with this component should trace against complex collision during movement (for example, each triangle of a mesh). If false, collision will be resolved against simple collision bounds instead. MoveComponent():

• translucency_sort_priority (int32): [Read-Write] Translucent objects with a lower sort priority draw behind objects with a higher priority. Translucent objects with the same priority are rendered from back-to-front based on their bounds origin. This setting is also used to sort objects being drawn into a runtime virtual texture.

  Ignored if the object is not translucent. The default priority is zero. Warning: This should never be set to a non-default value unless you know what you are doing, as it will prevent the renderer from sorting correctly. It is especially problematic on dynamic gameplay effects.

• treat_as_background_for_occlusion (bool): [Read-Write] Treat this primitive as part of the background for occlusion purposes. This can be used as an optimization to reduce the cost of rendering skyboxes, large ground planes that are part of the vista, etc.

• use_as_occluder (bool): [Read-Write] Whether to render the primitive in the depth only pass. This should generally be true for all objects, and let the renderer make decisions about whether to render objects in the depth only pass. if any rendering features rely on a complete depth only pass, this variable needs to go away.:

• use_attach_parent_bound (bool): [Read-Write] If true, this component uses its parents bounds when attached. This can be a significant optimization with many components attached together.

• use_max_lod_as_imposter (bool): [Read-Write] Use the Maximum LOD Mesh (imposter) instead of including Mesh data from this component in the Proxy Generation process

• virtual_texture_cull_mips (int8): [Read-Write] Number of lower mips in the runtime virtual texture to skip for rendering this primitive. Larger values reduce the effective draw distance in the runtime virtual texture. This culling method doesn’t take into account primitive size or virtual texture size.

• virtual_texture_lod_bias (int8): [Read-Write] Bias to the LOD selected for rendering to runtime virtual textures.

• virtual_texture_min_coverage (int8): [Read-Write] Set the minimum pixel coverage before culling from the runtime virtual texture. Larger values reduce the effective draw distance in the runtime virtual texture.

• virtual_texture_render_pass_type (RuntimeVirtualTextureMainPassType): [Read-Write] Controls if this component draws in the main pass as well as in the virtual texture.

• visible (bool): [Read-Write] Whether to completely draw the primitive; if false, the primitive is not drawn, does not cast a shadow.

• visible_in_ray_tracing (bool): [Read-Write] If true, this component will be visible in ray tracing effects. Turning this off will remove it from ray traced reflections, shadows, etc.

• visible_in_real_time_sky_captures (bool): [Read-Write] If true, this component will be visible in real-time sky light reflection captures.

• visible_in_reflection_captures (bool): [Read-Write] If true, this component will be visible in reflection captures.

add_angular_impulse(impulse, bone_name='None', vel_change=False) → None

Add Angular Impulse deprecated: Use AddAngularImpulseInRadians instead

Parameters

• impulse (Vector) –

• bone_name (Name) –

• vel_change (bool) –

add_angular_impulse_in_degrees(impulse, bone_name='None', vel_change=False) → None

Add an angular impulse to a single rigid body. Good for one time instant burst.

Parameters

• impulse (Vector) –

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to apply angular impulse to. ‘None’ indicates root body.

• vel_change (bool) – If true, the Strength is taken as a change in angular velocity instead of an impulse (ie. mass will have no effect).

add_angular_impulse_in_radians(impulse, bone_name='None', vel_change=False) → None

Add an angular impulse to a single rigid body. Good for one time instant burst.

Parameters

• impulse (Vector) –

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to apply angular impulse to. ‘None’ indicates root body.

• vel_change (bool) – If true, the Strength is taken as a change in angular velocity instead of an impulse (ie. mass will have no effect).

add_force(force, bone_name='None', accel_change=False) → None

Add a force to a single rigid body. This is like a ‘thruster’. Good for adding a burst over some (non zero) time. Should be called every frame for the duration of the force.

Parameters

• force (Vector) – Force vector to apply. Magnitude indicates strength of force.

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to apply force to. ‘None’ indicates root body.

• accel_change (bool) – If true, Force is taken as a change in acceleration instead of a physical force (i.e. mass will have no effect).

add_force_at_location(force, location, bone_name='None') → None

Add a force to a single rigid body at a particular location in world space. This is like a ‘thruster’. Good for adding a burst over some (non zero) time. Should be called every frame for the duration of the force.

Parameters

• force (Vector) – Force vector to apply. Magnitude indicates strength of force.

• location (Vector) – Location to apply force, in world space.

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to apply force to. ‘None’ indicates root body.

add_force_at_location_local(force, location, bone_name='None') → None

Add a force to a single rigid body at a particular location. Both Force and Location should be in body space. This is like a ‘thruster’. Good for adding a burst over some (non zero) time. Should be called every frame for the duration of the force.

Parameters

• force (Vector) – Force vector to apply. Magnitude indicates strength of force.

• location (Vector) – Location to apply force, in component space.

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to apply force to. ‘None’ indicates root body.

add_force_at_position(force, location, bone_name='None')

deprecated: ‘add_force_at_position’ was renamed to ‘add_force_at_location’.

add_impulse(impulse, bone_name='None', vel_change=False) → None

Add an impulse to a single rigid body. Good for one time instant burst.

Parameters

• impulse (Vector) – Magnitude and direction of impulse to apply.

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to apply impulse to. ‘None’ indicates root body.

• vel_change (bool) – If true, the Strength is taken as a change in velocity instead of an impulse (ie. mass will have no effect).

add_impulse_at_location(impulse, location, bone_name='None') → None

Add an impulse to a single rigid body at a specific location.

Parameters

• impulse (Vector) – Magnitude and direction of impulse to apply.

• location (Vector) – Point in world space to apply impulse at.

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of bone to apply impulse to. ‘None’ indicates root body.

add_impulse_at_position(impulse, location, bone_name='None')

deprecated: ‘add_impulse_at_position’ was renamed to ‘add_impulse_at_location’.

add_radial_force(origin, radius, strength, falloff, accel_change=False) → None

Add a force to all bodies in this component, originating from the supplied world-space location.

Parameters

• origin (Vector) – Origin of force in world space.

• radius (float) – Radius within which to apply the force.

• strength (float) – Strength of force to apply.

• falloff (RadialImpulseFalloff) – Allows you to control the strength of the force as a function of distance from Origin.

• accel_change (bool) – If true, Strength is taken as a change in acceleration instead of a physical force (i.e. mass will have no effect).

add_radial_impulse(origin, radius, strength, falloff, vel_change=False) → None

Add an impulse to all rigid bodies in this component, radiating out from the specified position.

Parameters

• origin (Vector) – Point of origin for the radial impulse blast, in world space

• radius (float) – Size of radial impulse. Beyond this distance from Origin, there will be no affect.

• strength (float) – Maximum strength of impulse applied to body.

• falloff (RadialImpulseFalloff) – Allows you to control the strength of the impulse as a function of distance from Origin.

• vel_change (bool) – If true, the Strength is taken as a change in velocity instead of an impulse (ie. mass will have no effect).

add_torque(torque, bone_name='None', accel_change=False) → None

Add Torque deprecated: Use AddTorqueInRadians instead

Parameters

• torque (Vector) –

• bone_name (Name) –

• accel_change (bool) –

add_torque_in_degrees(torque, bone_name='None', accel_change=False) → None

Add a torque to a single rigid body.

Parameters

• torque (Vector) – Torque to apply. Direction is axis of rotation and magnitude is strength of torque.

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to apply torque to. ‘None’ indicates root body.

• accel_change (bool) – If true, Torque is taken as a change in angular acceleration instead of a physical torque (i.e. mass will have no effect).

add_torque_in_radians(torque, bone_name='None', accel_change=False) → None

Add a torque to a single rigid body.

Parameters

• torque (Vector) – Torque to apply. Direction is axis of rotation and magnitude is strength of torque.

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to apply torque to. ‘None’ indicates root body.

• accel_change (bool) – If true, Torque is taken as a change in angular acceleration instead of a physical torque (i.e. mass will have no effect).

property affect_distance_field_lighting

[Read-Only] Controls whether the primitive should affect dynamic distance field lighting methods. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true. *

Type

(bool)

property affect_dynamic_indirect_lighting

[Read-Only] Controls whether the primitive should inject light into the Light Propagation Volume. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true. *

Type

(bool)

property allow_cull_distance_volume

[Read-Only] Whether to accept cull distance volumes to modify cached cull distance.

Type

(bool)

property always_create_physics_state

[Read-Only] Indicates if we’d like to create physics state all the time (for collision and simulation). If you set this to false, it still will create physics state if collision or simulation activated. This can help performance if you’d like to avoid overhead of creating physics state when triggers

Type

(bool)

property apply_impulse_on_damage

[Read-Write] True for damage to this component to apply physics impulse, false to opt out of these impulses.

Type

(bool)

property batch_imposters_as_instances

[Read-Write] If true, the proxy generation process will use instancing to render this imposter

Type

(bool)

property body_instance

[Read-Only] Physics scene information for this component, holds a single rigid body with multiple shapes.

Type

(BodyInstance)

box_overlap_component(box_centre, box, trace_complex, show_trace, persistent_show_trace) → (hit_location=Vector, hit_normal=Vector, bone_name=Name, out_hit=HitResult) or None

Perform a box overlap against a single component as an AABB (No rotation)

Parameters

• box_centre (Vector) – The centre of the box to overlap with the component

• box (Box) – Description of the box to use in the overlap

• trace_complex (bool) – Whether or not to trace the complex physics representation or just the simple representation

• show_trace (bool) – Whether or not to draw the trace in the world (for debugging)

• persistent_show_trace (bool) – Whether or not to make the debugging draw stay in the world permanently

Returns

hit_location (Vector):

hit_normal (Vector):

bone_name (Name):

out_hit (HitResult):

Return type

tuple or None

property cached_max_draw_distance

[Read-Only] The distance to cull this primitive at. A CachedMaxDrawDistance of 0 indicates that the primitive should not be culled by distance.

Type

(float)

property can_be_character_base

‘can_be_character_base’ was renamed to ‘can_character_step_up_on’.

Type

deprecated

can_character_step_up(pawn) → bool

Return true if the given Pawn can step up onto this component. This controls whether they can try to step up on it when they bump in to it, not whether they can walk on it after landing on it. CanCharacterStepUpOn:

Parameters

pawn (Pawn) – the Pawn that wants to step onto this component.

Returns

Return type

bool

property can_character_step_up_on

[Read-Write] Determine whether a Character can step up onto this component. This controls whether they can try to step up on it when they bump in to it, not whether they can walk on it after landing on it. FWalkableSlopeOverride:

Type

(CanBeCharacterBase)

property cast_cinematic_shadow

[Read-Only] Whether this component should cast shadows from lights that have bCastShadowsFromCinematicObjectsOnly enabled. This is useful for characters in a cinematic with special cinematic lights, where the cost of shadowmap rendering of the environment is undesired.

Type

(bool)

property cast_contact_shadow

[Read-Only] Whether the object should cast contact shadows. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true.

Type

(bool)

property cast_dynamic_shadow

[Read-Only] Controls whether the primitive should cast shadows in the case of non precomputed shadowing. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true. *

Type

(bool)

property cast_far_shadow

[Read-Only] When enabled, the component will be rendering into the far shadow cascades (only for directional lights).

Type

(bool)

property cast_hidden_shadow

[Read-Only] If true, the primitive will cast shadows even if bHidden is true. Controls whether the primitive should cast shadows when hidden. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true.

Type

(bool)

property cast_inset_shadow

[Read-Only] Whether this component should create a per-object shadow that gives higher effective shadow resolution. Useful for cinematic character shadowing. Assumed to be enabled if bSelfShadowOnly is enabled.

Type

(bool)

property cast_shadow

[Read-Only] Controls whether the primitive component should cast a shadow or not.

Type

(bool)

property cast_shadow_as_two_sided

[Read-Only] Whether this primitive should cast dynamic shadows as if it were a two sided material.

Type

(bool)

property cast_static_shadow

[Read-Only] Whether the object should cast a static shadow from shadow casting lights. This flag is only used if CastShadow is true.

Type

(bool)

property cast_volumetric_translucent_shadow

[Read-Only] Whether the object should cast a volumetric translucent shadow. Volumetric translucent shadows are useful for primitives with smoothly changing opacity like particles representing a volume, But have artifacts when used on highly opaque surfaces.

Type

(bool)

clear_move_ignore_actors() → None

Clear the list of actors we ignore when moving.

clear_move_ignore_components() → None

Clear the list of components we ignore when moving.

copy_array_of_move_ignore_actors()

Returns the list of actors we currently ignore when moving.

Returns

Return type

Array(Actor)

copy_array_of_move_ignore_components()

Returns the list of actors we currently ignore when moving.

Returns

Return type

Array(PrimitiveComponent)

create_and_set_material_instance_dynamic(element_index) → MaterialInstanceDynamic

Creates a Dynamic Material Instance for the specified element index. The parent of the instance is set to the material being replaced. deprecated: Use CreateDynamicMaterialInstance instead.

Parameters

element_index (int32) – The index of the skin to replace the material for. If invalid, the material is unchanged and NULL is returned.

Returns

Return type

MaterialInstanceDynamic

create_and_set_material_instance_dynamic_from_material(element_index, parent) → MaterialInstanceDynamic

Creates a Dynamic Material Instance for the specified element index. The parent of the instance is set to the material being replaced. deprecated: Use CreateDynamicMaterialInstance instead.

Parameters

• element_index (int32) – The index of the skin to replace the material for. If invalid, the material is unchanged and NULL is returned.

• parent (MaterialInterface) –

Returns

Return type

MaterialInstanceDynamic

create_dynamic_material_instance(element_index, source_material=None, optional_name='None') → MaterialInstanceDynamic

Creates a Dynamic Material Instance for the specified element index, optionally from the supplied material.

Parameters

• element_index (int32) – The index of the skin to replace the material for. If invalid, the material is unchanged and NULL is returned.

• source_material (MaterialInterface) –

• optional_name (Name) –

Returns

Return type

MaterialInstanceDynamic

property custom_depth_stencil_value

[Read-Only] Optionally write this 0-255 value to the stencil buffer in CustomDepth pass (Requires project setting or r.CustomDepth == 3)

Type

(int32)

property custom_depth_stencil_write_mask

[Read-Only] Mask used for stencil buffer writes.

Type

(RendererStencilMask)

property enable_auto_lod_generation

[Read-Write] If true, and if World setting has bEnableHierarchicalLOD equal to true, then this component will be included when generating a Proxy mesh for the parent Actor

Type

(bool)

property exclude_for_specific_hlod_levels

[Read-Write] Which specific HLOD levels this component should be excluded from

Type

(Array(int32))

property exclude_from_light_attachment_group

[Read-Only] If set, then it overrides any bLightAttachmentsAsGroup set in a parent.

Type

(bool)

property force_mip_streaming

[Read-Only] If true, forces mips for textures used by this component to be resident when this component’s level is loaded.

Type

(bool)

property generate_overlap_events

[Read-Write] Generate Overlap Events

Type

(bool)

get_angular_damping() → float

Returns the angular damping of this component.

Returns

Return type

float

get_center_of_mass(bone_name='None') → Vector

Get the center of mass of a single body. In the case of a welded body this will return the center of mass of the entire welded body (including its parent and children) Objects that are not simulated return (0,0,0) as they do not have COM

Parameters

bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to get center of mass of. ‘None’ indicates root body.

Returns

Return type

Vector

get_closest_point_on_collision(point, bone_name="None") -> (float, out_point_on_body=Vector)

Returns the distance and closest point to the collision surface. Component must have simple collision to be queried for closest point.

Parameters

• point (Vector) – World 3D vector

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to set center of mass of. ‘None’ indicates root body.

Returns

Success if returns > 0.f, if returns 0.f, it is either not convex or inside of the point If returns < 0.f, this primitive does not have collsion

out_point_on_body (Vector): Point on the surface of collision closest to Point

Return type

Vector

get_collision_enabled() → CollisionEnabled

Returns the form of collision for this component

Returns

Return type

CollisionEnabled

get_collision_object_type() → CollisionChannel

Gets the collision object type

Returns

Return type

CollisionChannel

get_collision_profile_name() → Name

Get the collision profile name

Returns

Return type

Name

get_collision_response_to_channel(channel) → CollisionResponseType

Gets the response type given a specific channel

Parameters

channel (CollisionChannel) –

Returns

Return type

CollisionResponseType

get_inertia_tensor(bone_name='None') → Vector

Returns the inertia tensor of this component in kg cm^2. The inertia tensor is in local component space.

Parameters

bone_name (Name) –

Returns

Return type

Vector

get_linear_damping() → float

Returns the linear damping of this component.

Returns

Return type

float

get_mass() → float

Returns the mass of this component in kg.

Returns

Return type

float

get_mass_scale(bone_name='None') → float

Returns the mass scale used to calculate the mass of a single physics body

Parameters

bone_name (Name) –

Returns

Return type

float

get_material(element_index) → MaterialInterface

Returns the material used by the element at the specified index

Parameters

element_index (int32) – The element to access the material of.

Returns

the material used by the indexed element of this mesh.

Return type

MaterialInterface

get_material_from_collision_face_index(face_index) -> (MaterialInterface, section_index=int32)

Try and retrieve the material applied to a particular collision face of mesh. Used with face index returned from collision trace.

Parameters

face_index (int32) – Face index from hit result that was hit by a trace

Returns

Material applied to section that the hit face belongs to

section_index (int32): Section of the mesh that the face belongs to

Return type

int32

get_move_ignore_actors()

deprecated: ‘get_move_ignore_actors’ was renamed to ‘copy_array_of_move_ignore_actors’.

get_num_materials() → int32

Return number of material elements in this primitive

Returns

Return type

int32

get_overlapping_actors(class_filter=None)

Returns a list of actors that this component is overlapping.

Parameters

class_filter (type(Class)) – [optional] If set, only returns actors of this class or subclasses

Returns

overlapping_actors (Array(Actor)): [out] Returned list of overlapping actors

Return type

Array(Actor)

get_overlapping_components()

Returns unique list of components this component is overlapping.

Returns

out_overlapping_components (Array(PrimitiveComponent)):

Return type

Array(PrimitiveComponent)

get_physics_angular_velocity(bone_name='None') → Vector

Get Physics Angular Velocity deprecated: Use GetPhysicsAngularVelocityInDegrees instead

Parameters

bone_name (Name) –

Returns

Return type

Vector

get_physics_angular_velocity_in_degrees(bone_name='None') → Vector

Get the angular velocity of a single body, in degrees per second.

Parameters

bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to get velocity of. ‘None’ indicates root body.

Returns

Return type

Vector

get_physics_angular_velocity_in_radians(bone_name='None') → Vector

Get the angular velocity of a single body, in radians per second.

Parameters

bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to get velocity of. ‘None’ indicates root body.

Returns

Return type

Vector

get_physics_linear_velocity(bone_name='None') → Vector

Get the linear velocity of a single body.

Parameters

bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to get velocity of. ‘None’ indicates root body.

Returns

Return type

Vector

get_physics_linear_velocity_at_point(point, bone_name='None') → Vector

Get the linear velocity of a point on a single body.

Parameters

• point (Vector) – Point is specified in world space.

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to get velocity of. ‘None’ indicates root body.

Returns

Return type

Vector

get_rb_angular_velocity(bone_name='None')

deprecated: ‘get_rb_angular_velocity’ was renamed to ‘get_physics_angular_velocity’.

get_rb_linear_velocity(bone_name='None')

deprecated: ‘get_rb_linear_velocity’ was renamed to ‘get_physics_linear_velocity’.

get_touching_actors(class_filter=None)

deprecated: ‘get_touching_actors’ was renamed to ‘get_overlapping_actors’.

get_touching_components()

deprecated: ‘get_touching_components’ was renamed to ‘get_overlapping_components’.

get_walkable_slope_override() → WalkableSlopeOverride

Returns the slope override struct for this component.

Returns

Return type

WalkableSlopeOverride

ignore_actor_when_moving(actor, should_ignore) → None

Tells this component whether to ignore collision with all components of a specific Actor when this component is moved. Components on the other Actor may also need to be told to do the same when they move. Does not affect movement of this component when simulating physics.

Parameters

• actor (Actor) –

• should_ignore (bool) –

ignore_component_when_moving(component, should_ignore) → None

Tells this component whether to ignore collision with another component when this component is moved. The other components may also need to be told to do the same when they move. Does not affect movement of this component when simulating physics.

Parameters

• component (PrimitiveComponent) –

• should_ignore (bool) –

property ignore_radial_force

[Read-Write] Will ignore radial forces applied to this component.

Type

(bool)

property ignore_radial_impulse

[Read-Write] Will ignore radial impulses applied to this component.

Type

(bool)

property indirect_lighting_cache_quality

[Read-Only] Quality of indirect lighting for Movable primitives. This has a large effect on Indirect Lighting Cache update time.

Type

(IndirectLightingCacheQuality)

is_any_rigid_body_awake() → bool

Returns if any body in this component is currently awake and simulating.

Returns

Return type

bool

is_collision_enabled() → bool

Utility to see if there is any form of collision (query or physics) enabled on this component.

Returns

Return type

bool

is_gravity_enabled() → bool

Returns whether this component is affected by gravity. Returns always false if the component is not simulated.

Returns

Return type

bool

is_overlapping_actor(other) → bool

Check whether this component is overlapping any component of the given Actor.

Parameters

other (Actor) – Actor to test this component against.

Returns

Whether this component is overlapping any component of the given Actor.

Return type

bool

is_overlapping_component(other_comp) → bool

Check whether this component is overlapping another component.

Parameters

other_comp (PrimitiveComponent) – Component to test this component against.

Returns

Whether this component is overlapping another component.

Return type

bool

is_physics_collision_enabled() → bool

Utility to see if there is any physics collision enabled on this component.

Returns

Return type

bool

is_query_collision_enabled() → bool

Utility to see if there is any query collision enabled on this component.

Returns

Return type

bool

property ld_max_draw_distance

[Read-Only] Max draw distance exposed to LDs. The real max draw distance is the min (disregarding 0) of this and volumes affecting this object.

Type

(float)

property light_attachments_as_group

[Read-Only] Whether to light this component and any attachments as a group. This only has effect on the root component of an attachment tree. When enabled, attached component shadowing settings like bCastInsetShadow, bCastVolumetricTranslucentShadow, etc, will be ignored. This is useful for improving performance when multiple movable components are attached together.

Type

(bool)

property lighting_channels

[Read-Only] Channels that this component should be in. Lights with matching channels will affect the component. These channels only apply to opaque materials, direct lighting, and dynamic lighting and shadowing.

Type

(LightingChannels)

property lightmap_type

[Read-Only] Controls the type of lightmap used for this component.

Type

(LightmapType)

line_trace_component(trace_start, trace_end, trace_complex, show_trace, persistent_show_trace) → (hit_location=Vector, hit_normal=Vector, bone_name=Name, out_hit=HitResult) or None

Perform a line trace against a single component

Parameters

• trace_start (Vector) – The start of the trace in world-space

• trace_end (Vector) – The end of the trace in world-space

• trace_complex (bool) – Whether or not to trace the complex physics representation or just the simple representation

• show_trace (bool) – Whether or not to draw the trace in the world (for debugging)

• persistent_show_trace (bool) – Whether or not to make the debugging draw stay in the world permanently

Returns

hit_location (Vector):

hit_normal (Vector):

bone_name (Name):

out_hit (HitResult):

Return type

tuple or None

property lpv_bias_multiplier

[Read-Only] Multiplier used to scale the Light Propagation Volume light injection bias, to reduce light bleeding. Set to 0 for no bias, 1 for default or higher for increased biasing (e.g. for thin geometry such as walls)

Type

(float)

property min_draw_distance

[Read-Only] The minimum distance at which the primitive should be rendered, measured in world space units from the center of the primitive’s bounding sphere to the camera position.

Type

(float)

property multi_body_overlap

[Read-Write] If true, this component will generate individual overlaps for each overlapping physics body if it is a multi-body component. When false, this component will generate only one overlap, regardless of how many physics bodies it has and how many of them are overlapping another component/body. This flag has no influence on single body components.

Type

(bool)

property never_distance_cull

[Read-Only] When enabled this object will not be culled by distance. This is ignored if a child of a HLOD.

Type

(bool)

property on_begin_cursor_over

[Read-Write] Event called when the mouse cursor is moved over this component and mouse over events are enabled in the player controller

Type

(ComponentBeginCursorOverSignature)

property on_clicked

[Read-Write] Event called when the left mouse button is clicked while the mouse is over this component and click events are enabled in the player controller

Type

(ComponentOnClickedSignature)

property on_component_begin_overlap

[Read-Write] Event called when something starts to overlaps this component, for example a player walking into a trigger. For events when objects have a blocking collision, for example a player hitting a wall, see ‘Hit’ events. Both this component and the other one must have GetGenerateOverlapEvents() set to true to generate overlap events.: When receiving an overlap from another object’s movement, the directions of ‘Hit.Normal’ and ‘Hit.ImpactNormal’ will be adjusted to indicate force from the other object against this object.:

Type

(ComponentBeginOverlapSignature)

property on_component_end_overlap

[Read-Write] Event called when something stops overlapping this component Both this component and the other one must have GetGenerateOverlapEvents() set to true to generate overlap events.:

Type

(ComponentEndOverlapSignature)

property on_component_hit

[Read-Write] Event called when a component hits (or is hit by) something solid. This could happen due to things like Character movement, using Set Location with ‘sweep’ enabled, or physics simulation. For events when objects overlap (e.g. walking into a trigger) see the ‘Overlap’ event. For collisions during physics simulation to generate hit events, ‘Simulation Generates Hit Events’ must be enabled for this component.: When receiving a hit from another object’s movement, the directions of ‘Hit.Normal’ and ‘Hit.ImpactNormal’ will be adjusted to indicate force from the other object against this object.: NormalImpulse will be filled in for physics-simulating bodies, but will be zero for swept-component blocking collisions.:

Type

(ComponentHitSignature)

property on_component_sleep

[Read-Write] Event called when the underlying physics objects is put to sleep

Type

(ComponentSleepSignature)

property on_component_wake

[Read-Write] Event called when the underlying physics objects is woken up

Type

(ComponentWakeSignature)

property on_end_cursor_over

[Read-Write] Event called when the mouse cursor is moved off this component and mouse over events are enabled in the player controller

Type

(ComponentEndCursorOverSignature)

property on_input_touch_begin

[Read-Write] Event called when a touch input is received over this component when touch events are enabled in the player controller

Type

(ComponentOnInputTouchBeginSignature)

property on_input_touch_end

[Read-Write] Event called when a touch input is released over this component when touch events are enabled in the player controller

Type

(ComponentOnInputTouchEndSignature)

property on_input_touch_enter

[Read-Write] Event called when a finger is moved over this component when touch over events are enabled in the player controller

Type

(ComponentBeginTouchOverSignature)

property on_input_touch_leave

[Read-Write] Event called when a finger is moved off this component when touch over events are enabled in the player controller

Type

(ComponentEndTouchOverSignature)

property on_released

[Read-Write] Event called when the left mouse button is released while the mouse is over this component click events are enabled in the player controller

Type

(ComponentOnReleasedSignature)

property only_owner_see

[Read-Only] If this is True, this component will only be visible when the view actor is the component’s owner, directly or indirectly.

Type

(bool)

property owner_no_see

[Read-Only] If this is True, this component won’t be visible when the view actor is the component’s owner, directly or indirectly.

Type

(bool)

put_rigid_body_to_sleep(bone_name='None') → None

Force a single body back to sleep.

Parameters

bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to put to sleep. ‘None’ indicates root body.

property receive_mobile_csm_shadows

[Read-Only] Mobile only: If disabled this component will not receive CSM shadows. (Components that do not receive CSM may have reduced shading cost)

Type

(bool)

property receives_decals

[Read-Only] Whether the primitive receives decals.

Type

(bool)

property render_custom_depth

[Read-Only] If true, this component will be rendered in the CustomDepth pass (usually used for outlines)

Type

(bool)

property render_in_depth_pass

[Read-Only] If true, this component will be rendered in the depth pass even if it’s not rendered in the main pass

Type

(bool)

property render_in_main_pass

[Read-Only] If true, this component will be rendered in the main pass (z prepass, basepass, transparency)

Type

(bool)

property replicate_physics_to_autonomous_proxy

[Read-Write] True if physics should be replicated to autonomous proxies. This should be true for server-authoritative simulations, and false for client authoritative simulations.

Type

(bool)

property return_material_on_move

[Read-Write] If true, component sweeps will return the material in their hit result. MoveComponent(), FHitResult:

Type

(bool)

property runtime_virtual_textures

[Read-Write] Array of runtime virtual textures into which we draw the mesh for this actor. The material also needs to be set up to output to a virtual texture.

Type

(Array(RuntimeVirtualTexture))

scale_by_moment_of_inertia(input_vector, bone_name='None') → Vector

Scales the given vector by the world space moment of inertia. Useful for computing the torque needed to rotate an object.

Parameters

• input_vector (Vector) –

• bone_name (Name) –

Returns

Return type

Vector

property self_shadow_only

[Read-Only] When enabled, the component will only cast a shadow on itself and not other components in the world. This is especially useful for first person weapons, and forces bCastInsetShadow to be enabled.

Type

(bool)

set_all_mass_scale(mass_scale=1.0) → None

Change the mass scale used fo all bodies in this component

Parameters

mass_scale (float) –

set_all_physics_angular_velocity_in_degrees(new_ang_vel, add_to_current=False) → None

Set the angular velocity of all bodies in this component.

Parameters

• new_ang_vel (Vector) – New angular velocity to apply to physics, in degrees per second.

• add_to_current (bool) – If true, NewAngVel is added to the existing angular velocity of all bodies.

set_all_physics_angular_velocity_in_radians(new_ang_vel, add_to_current=False) → None

Set the angular velocity of all bodies in this component.

Parameters

• new_ang_vel (Vector) – New angular velocity to apply to physics, in radians per second.

• add_to_current (bool) – If true, NewAngVel is added to the existing angular velocity of all bodies.

set_all_physics_linear_velocity(new_vel, add_to_current=False) → None

Set the linear velocity of all bodies in this component.

Parameters

• new_vel (Vector) – New linear velocity to apply to physics.

• add_to_current (bool) – If true, NewVel is added to the existing velocity of the body.

set_all_rb_linear_velocity(new_vel, add_to_current=False)

deprecated: ‘set_all_rb_linear_velocity’ was renamed to ‘set_all_physics_linear_velocity’.

set_all_use_ccd(use_ccd) → None

Set whether all bodies in this component should use Continuous Collision Detection

Parameters

use_ccd (bool) –

set_angular_damping(damping) → None

Sets the angular damping of this component.

Parameters

damping (float) –

set_bounds_scale(new_bounds_scale=1.0) → None

Scale the bounds of this object, used for frustum culling. Useful for features like WorldPositionOffset.

Parameters

new_bounds_scale (float) –

set_cast_inset_shadow(cast_inset_shadow) → None

Changes the value of CastInsetShadow.

Parameters

cast_inset_shadow (bool) –

set_cast_shadow(new_cast_shadow) → None

Changes the value of CastShadow.

Parameters

new_cast_shadow (bool) –

set_center_of_mass(center_of_mass_offset, bone_name='None') → None

Set the center of mass of a single body. This will offset the physx-calculated center of mass. Note that in the case where multiple bodies are attached together, the center of mass will be set for the entire group.

Parameters

• center_of_mass_offset (Vector) – User specified offset for the center of mass of this object, from the calculated location.

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to set center of mass of. ‘None’ indicates root body.

set_collision_enabled(new_type) → None

Controls what kind of collision is enabled for this body

Parameters

new_type (CollisionEnabled) –

set_collision_object_type(channel) → None

Changes the collision channel that this object uses when it moves

Parameters

channel (CollisionChannel) – The new channel for this component to use

set_collision_profile_name(collision_profile_name, update_overlaps=True) → None

Set Collision Profile Name This function is called by constructors when they set ProfileName This will change current CollisionProfileName to be this, and overwrite Collision Setting

Parameters

• collision_profile_name (Name) – : New Profile Name

• update_overlaps (bool) –

set_collision_response_to_all_channels(new_response) → None

Changes all ResponseToChannels container for this PrimitiveComponent. to be NewResponse

Parameters

new_response (CollisionResponseType) – What the new response should be to the supplied Channel

set_collision_response_to_channel(channel, new_response) → None

Changes a member of the ResponseToChannels container for this PrimitiveComponent.

Parameters

• channel (CollisionChannel) – The channel to change the response of

• new_response (CollisionResponseType) – What the new response should be to the supplied Channel

set_constraint_mode(constraint_mode) → None

Sets the constraint mode of the component.

Parameters

constraint_mode (DOFMode) – The type of constraint to use.

set_cull_distance(new_cull_distance) → None

Changes the value of CullDistance.

Parameters

new_cull_distance (float) – The value to assign to CullDistance.

set_custom_depth_stencil_value(value) → None

Sets the CustomDepth stencil value (0 - 255) and marks the render state dirty.

Parameters

value (int32) –

set_custom_depth_stencil_write_mask(write_mask_bit) → None

Sets the CustomDepth stencil write mask and marks the render state dirty.

Parameters

write_mask_bit (RendererStencilMask) –

set_custom_primitive_data_float(data_index, value) → None

Set custom primitive data at index DataIndex.

Parameters

• data_index (int32) –

• value (float) –

set_custom_primitive_data_vector2(data_index, value) → None

Set custom primitive data, two floats at once, from index DataIndex to index DataIndex + 1.

Parameters

• data_index (int32) –

• value (Vector2D) –

set_custom_primitive_data_vector3(data_index, value) → None

Set custom primitive data, three floats at once, from index DataIndex to index DataIndex + 2.

Parameters

• data_index (int32) –

• value (Vector) –

set_custom_primitive_data_vector4(data_index, value) → None

Set custom primitive data, four floats at once, from index DataIndex to index DataIndex + 3.

Parameters

• data_index (int32) –

• value (Vector4) –

set_enable_gravity(gravity_enabled) → None

Enables/disables whether this component is affected by gravity. This applies only to components with bSimulatePhysics set to true.

Parameters

gravity_enabled (bool) –

set_exclude_from_light_attachment_group(exclude_from_light_attachment_group) → None

Changes the value of ExcludeFromLightAttachmentGroup.

Parameters

exclude_from_light_attachment_group (bool) –

set_light_attachments_as_group(light_attachments_as_group) → None

Changes the value of LightAttachmentsAsGroup.

Parameters

light_attachments_as_group (bool) –

set_lighting_channels(channel0, channel1, channel2) → None

Set Lighting Channels

Parameters

• channel0 (bool) –

• channel1 (bool) –

• channel2 (bool) –

set_linear_damping(damping) → None

Sets the linear damping of this component.

Parameters

damping (float) –

set_mass_override_in_kg(bone_name='None', mass_in_kg=1.0, override_mass=True) → None

Override the mass (in Kg) of a single physics body. Note that in the case where multiple bodies are attached together, the override mass will be set for the entire group. Set the Override Mass to false if you want to reset the body’s mass to the auto-calculated physx mass.

Parameters

• bone_name (Name) –

• mass_in_kg (float) –

• override_mass (bool) –

set_mass_scale(bone_name='None', mass_scale=1.0) → None

Change the mass scale used to calculate the mass of a single physics body

Parameters

• bone_name (Name) –

• mass_scale (float) –

set_material(element_index, material) → None

Changes the material applied to an element of the mesh.

Parameters

• element_index (int32) – The element to access the material of.

• material (MaterialInterface) –

Returns

the material used by the indexed element of this mesh.

set_material_by_name(material_slot_name, material) → None

Changes the material applied to an element of the mesh.

Parameters

• material_slot_name (Name) – The slot name to access the material of.

• material (MaterialInterface) –

Returns

the material used by the indexed element of this mesh.

set_movement_channel(channel)

deprecated: ‘set_movement_channel’ was renamed to ‘set_collision_object_type’.

set_notify_rigid_body_collision(new_notify_rigid_body_collision) → None

Changes the value of bNotifyRigidBodyCollision

Parameters

new_notify_rigid_body_collision (bool) –

set_only_owner_see(new_only_owner_see) → None

Changes the value of bOnlyOwnerSee.

Parameters

new_only_owner_see (bool) –

set_owner_no_see(new_owner_no_see) → None

Changes the value of bOwnerNoSee.

Parameters

new_owner_no_see (bool) –

set_phys_material_override(new_phys_material) → None

Changes the current PhysMaterialOverride for this component. Note that if physics is already running on this component, this will _not_ alter its mass/inertia etc, it will only change its surface properties like friction.

Parameters

new_phys_material (PhysicalMaterial) –

set_physics_angular_velocity(new_ang_vel, add_to_current=False, bone_name='None') → None

Set Physics Angular Velocity deprecated: Use SetPhysicsAngularVelocityInDegrees instead

Parameters

• new_ang_vel (Vector) –

• add_to_current (bool) –

• bone_name (Name) –

set_physics_angular_velocity_in_degrees(new_ang_vel, add_to_current=False, bone_name='None') → None

Set the angular velocity of a single body. This should be used cautiously - it may be better to use AddTorque or AddImpulse.

Parameters

• new_ang_vel (Vector) – New angular velocity to apply to body, in degrees per second.

• add_to_current (bool) – If true, NewAngVel is added to the existing angular velocity of the body.

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to modify angular velocity of. ‘None’ indicates root body.

set_physics_angular_velocity_in_radians(new_ang_vel, add_to_current=False, bone_name='None') → None

Set the angular velocity of a single body. This should be used cautiously - it may be better to use AddTorque or AddImpulse.

Parameters

• new_ang_vel (Vector) – New angular velocity to apply to body, in radians per second.

• add_to_current (bool) – If true, NewAngVel is added to the existing angular velocity of the body.

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to modify angular velocity of. ‘None’ indicates root body.

set_physics_linear_velocity(new_vel, add_to_current=False, bone_name='None') → None

Set the linear velocity of a single body. This should be used cautiously - it may be better to use AddForce or AddImpulse.

Parameters

• new_vel (Vector) – New linear velocity to apply to physics.

• add_to_current (bool) – If true, NewVel is added to the existing velocity of the body.

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to modify velocity of. ‘None’ indicates root body.

set_physics_max_angular_velocity(new_max_ang_vel, add_to_current=False, bone_name='None') → None

Set Physics Max Angular Velocity deprecated: Use SetPhysicsMaxAngularVelocityInDegrees instead

Parameters

• new_max_ang_vel (float) –

• add_to_current (bool) –

• bone_name (Name) –

set_physics_max_angular_velocity_in_degrees(new_max_ang_vel, add_to_current=False, bone_name='None') → None

Set the maximum angular velocity of a single body.

Parameters

• new_max_ang_vel (float) – New maximum angular velocity to apply to body, in degrees per second.

• add_to_current (bool) – If true, NewMaxAngVel is added to the existing maximum angular velocity of the body.

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to modify maximum angular velocity of. ‘None’ indicates root body.

set_physics_max_angular_velocity_in_radians(new_max_ang_vel, add_to_current=False, bone_name='None') → None

Set the maximum angular velocity of a single body.

Parameters

• new_max_ang_vel (float) – New maximum angular velocity to apply to body, in radians per second.

• add_to_current (bool) – If true, NewMaxAngVel is added to the existing maximum angular velocity of the body.

• bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to modify maximum angular velocity of. ‘None’ indicates root body.

set_rb_angular_velocity(new_ang_vel, add_to_current=False, bone_name='None')

deprecated: ‘set_rb_angular_velocity’ was renamed to ‘set_physics_angular_velocity’.

set_rb_linear_velocity(new_vel, add_to_current=False, bone_name='None')

deprecated: ‘set_rb_linear_velocity’ was renamed to ‘set_physics_linear_velocity’.

set_receives_decals(new_receives_decals) → None

Changes the value of bReceivesDecals.

Parameters

new_receives_decals (bool) –

set_render_custom_depth(value) → None

Sets the bRenderCustomDepth property and marks the render state dirty.

Parameters

value (bool) –

set_render_in_main_pass(value) → None

Sets bRenderInMainPass property and marks the render state dirty.

Parameters

value (bool) –

set_simulate_physics(simulate) → None

Sets whether or not a single body should use physics simulation, or should be ‘fixed’ (kinematic). Note that if this component is currently attached to something, beginning simulation will detach it.

Parameters

simulate (bool) – New simulation state for single body

set_single_sample_shadow_from_stationary_lights(new_single_sample_shadow_from_stationary_lights) → None

Changes the value of bSingleSampleShadowFromStationaryLights.

Parameters

new_single_sample_shadow_from_stationary_lights (bool) –

set_translucent_sort_priority(new_translucent_sort_priority) → None

Changes the value of TranslucentSortPriority.

Parameters

new_translucent_sort_priority (int32) –

set_use_ccd(use_ccd, bone_name='None') → None

Set whether this component should use Continuous Collision Detection

Parameters

• use_ccd (bool) –

• bone_name (Name) –

set_walkable_slope_override(new_override) → None

Sets a new slope override for this component instance.

Parameters

new_override (WalkableSlopeOverride) –

property single_sample_shadow_from_stationary_lights

[Read-Only] Whether the whole component should be shadowed as one from stationary lights, which makes shadow receiving much cheaper. When enabled shadowing data comes from the volume lighting samples precomputed by Lightmass, which are very sparse. This is currently only used on stationary directional lights.

Type

(bool)

sphere_overlap_component(sphere_centre, sphere_radius, trace_complex, show_trace, persistent_show_trace) → (hit_location=Vector, hit_normal=Vector, bone_name=Name, out_hit=HitResult) or None

Perform a sphere overlap against a single component

Parameters

• sphere_centre (Vector) – The centre of the sphere to overlap with the component

• sphere_radius (float) – The Radius of the sphere to overlap with the component

• trace_complex (bool) – Whether or not to trace the complex physics representation or just the simple representation

• show_trace (bool) – Whether or not to draw the trace in the world (for debugging)

• persistent_show_trace (bool) – Whether or not to make the debugging draw stay in the world permanently

Returns

hit_location (Vector):

hit_normal (Vector):

bone_name (Name):

out_hit (HitResult):

Return type

tuple or None

sphere_trace_component(trace_start, trace_end, sphere_radius, trace_complex, show_trace, persistent_show_trace) → (hit_location=Vector, hit_normal=Vector, bone_name=Name, out_hit=HitResult) or None

Perform a sphere trace against a single component

Parameters

• trace_start (Vector) – The start of the trace in world-space

• trace_end (Vector) – The end of the trace in world-space

• sphere_radius (float) – Radius of the sphere to trace against the component

• trace_complex (bool) – Whether or not to trace the complex physics representation or just the simple representation

• show_trace (bool) – Whether or not to draw the trace in the world (for debugging)

• persistent_show_trace (bool) – Whether or not to make the debugging draw stay in the world permanently

Returns

hit_location (Vector):

hit_normal (Vector):

bone_name (Name):

out_hit (HitResult):

Return type

tuple or None

property trace_complex_on_move

[Read-Write] If true, component sweeps with this component should trace against complex collision during movement (for example, each triangle of a mesh). If false, collision will be resolved against simple collision bounds instead. MoveComponent():

Type

(bool)

property translucency_sort_priority

[Read-Only] Translucent objects with a lower sort priority draw behind objects with a higher priority. Translucent objects with the same priority are rendered from back-to-front based on their bounds origin. This setting is also used to sort objects being drawn into a runtime virtual texture.

Ignored if the object is not translucent. The default priority is zero. Warning: This should never be set to a non-default value unless you know what you are doing, as it will prevent the renderer from sorting correctly. It is especially problematic on dynamic gameplay effects.

Type

(int32)

property treat_as_background_for_occlusion

[Read-Only] Treat this primitive as part of the background for occlusion purposes. This can be used as an optimization to reduce the cost of rendering skyboxes, large ground planes that are part of the vista, etc.

Type

(bool)

property use_as_occluder

[Read-Only] Whether to render the primitive in the depth only pass. This should generally be true for all objects, and let the renderer make decisions about whether to render objects in the depth only pass. if any rendering features rely on a complete depth only pass, this variable needs to go away.:

Type

(bool)

property use_max_lod_as_imposter

[Read-Write] Use the Maximum LOD Mesh (imposter) instead of including Mesh data from this component in the Proxy Generation process

Type

(bool)

property virtual_texture_render_pass_type

[Read-Only] Controls if this component draws in the main pass as well as in the virtual texture.

Type

(RuntimeVirtualTextureMainPassType)

property visible_in_ray_tracing

[Read-Only] If true, this component will be visible in ray tracing effects. Turning this off will remove it from ray traced reflections, shadows, etc.

Type

(bool)

property visible_in_real_time_sky_captures

[Read-Only] If true, this component will be visible in real-time sky light reflection captures.

Type

(bool)

property visible_in_reflection_captures

[Read-Only] If true, this component will be visible in reflection captures.

Type

(bool)

wake_all_rigid_bodies() → None

Ensure simulation is running for all bodies in this component.

wake_rigid_body(bone_name='None') → None

‘Wake’ physics simulation for a single body.

Parameters

bone_name (Name) – If a SkeletalMeshComponent, name of body to wake. ‘None’ indicates root body.

was_recently_rendered(tolerance=0.2) → bool

Returns true if this component has been rendered “recently”, with a tolerance in seconds to define what “recent” means. e.g.: If a tolerance of 0.1 is used, this function will return true only if the actor was rendered in the last 0.1 seconds of game time.

Parameters

tolerance (float) – How many seconds ago the actor last render time can be and still count as having been “recently” rendered.

Returns

Whether this actor was recently rendered.

Return type

bool