Making a static mesh vanish

[Neji]

Is this possible without touching code? I'm trying to make a static mesh vanish once a player touches it. I'd like to do it simply with kismet but I know that's probably not going to happen

[Prezadent]

I'm almost sure it can be done with kismet, will play around with this tonight.

[Kaldrick]

In Kismet is as simple as event 'MyStaticMesh Touched' => Destroy (linked up with MyStaticMesh obj variable).
In code it's a bit more tricky, as the .Destroy function doesn't work as expected. But you can always trick it by setting the mesh to be hidden and removing any collisions with it:
MyHitActor.SetHidden(true);
MyHitActor.SetCollision(false, false, false);

[Prezadent]

In Kismet is as simple as event 'MyStaticMesh Touched' => Destroy (linked up with MyStaticMesh obj variable).

It should be that easy, almost but not quite. You have to have an InterpActor and change the collision type to touch all.

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Heres the step by step...

Place a static mesh and then right click on it and -Convert to Mover-
OR place an InterpActor (Movers and InterpActors are same thing)

Go to the properties and change -Collision, Collision Type- to COLLIDE_TouchAll

With it still selected, open Kismet.

Right click and select -New Event Using InterpActor_??-
Right click and create a second new kismet node -Actor, Destroy-
Conect the -Touched- from the event to the -In- of the Destroy
Still selected, right?
Right click on the Destroy I/O connector called Target and create -New Object Var from InterpActor_??

This should now cause the mesh to dissapear when you touch it, if not, make sure -Movement, Physics- is set to PHYS_Interpolating.

HTH
Prez

[Neji]

Awesome. Thanks for the help.

I did try the destroy action in kismet but it didn't do anything and I quit after a short time playing with it. As a temp, I actually did a Matinee which just took the object through the floor at a really high speed which had the same effect of it just vanishing. This is better though

Thanks to both of you.