Working on learning UE4 and its Blueprint visual scripting; currently trying to get multiple controllable characters in the Top Down example project, using this official tutorial for Side Scroller as a basis, but it’s not working as expected. Adding multiple characters, creating the level blueprint, and compiling the level blueprint all work fine, but when actually testing (i.e. running the game and using keyboard inputs to change characters), nothing happens. I’ve tried setting breakpoints on the input events, but even those don’t fire.
As far as I can tell, this is due to the Top Down example project using a TopDownController (which is derived from a PlayerController) instead of a PlayerController, but I have no idea how to go about using/modifying TopDownController to get the desired behavior (switching between multiple TopDownCharacters and controlling them individually).
thats a common issue and really easy to solve if you know where to look
Go into the TopDownController blueprint, to the Class Defaults. Scroll down and disable the checkbox “Block Input”, so that your Level Blueprint actually gets the Input forwarded; Otherwise the TopDownController will consume any input and your Level Blueprint never gets it.
