How to create a destructible mesh inside Unreal Engine 4 (tutorial)

hello and today i will be showing you how to create a destructible mesh out of any static mesh you have and have it explode :)

[pdxbmwfan]

The destructible mesh option was removed lately and added as part of a plug-in which is disabled by default. To enable, go to Edit -> Plugins -> Physics -> APEX Destruction. The option to create destructible meshes will be available after restarting the editor.

[tralala]

This method is far superior to the solutions posted elsewhere. Thanks.

[LewisBryanJamieson]

You can "Apply Damage to Destructible Mesh" as another option; to activate the destructible mesh animation without firing a projectile that way you can fire an interact-able event or function to execute the destructible animation., you can and change the location nodes of hit and dir to the world location of the actual mesh (or from your character and get the forward vector location to simulate more advanced destructible mesh physics/animations that enable to explode in the given direction.

[ArcaneTurbulence]

Your intro just woke up everyone in the Tri-state area.

[kyle-carpio]

I have a question, if you add more destruction pieces, does it make your computer frame lag?

[alexmontgomery]

Could you supposedly make a fully destructible terrain by doing this so it could be like Minecraft but not blocky?

[Twistednc]

Thanks man, found it hard to find an up to date Tut.

Ps: found out the hard way to not put 5k fracture points

[selimosman]

When you say it is applicable to a static mesh, can that be a model that is imported? If it is, must the model not have any animations? The static part of static mesh means it is something with a mesh that doesn't necessarily change or move? So a player wouldn't be static, but for example a box or wall would?

[Theperkerify]

I've been doing exactly as you are doing with projectile and I can't break the mesh... Can you upload file anywhere?

[wayzeranime]

man I really appreciate this tutorial but please give me the name of the song in the bigenning, pls

[Theperkerify]

How do I make it so, that when my character TOUCHES the object it breaks :) ?

[xermy]

My projectile just disappears whenever it touches the destructible mesh wtf

*EDIT:* Okay now it just flies away super fast when I shoot it. What.

[TheAxebeard]

Thumbs down for that way too loud intro.