AI walk back and to the side

Development Programming & Scripting
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I have a Scenario where a character (NPC) is still standing.
I want him to move backwards or to the side with blueprints. I set up a BlendSpace with Direction and Speed for the animations. (Walking backwards and steps to side animations)
I don’t want him to turn around but step back when the target point is behind him and step to the side when the target point is left or right (see picture).

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Now I am not sure how I can implement this behavior. Should I use MoveTo? But this is turning the character.
How can I access the direction of my character?
I also want to make use of the navmesh as well.

I know there are many tutorials but most of them are only for player controlled characters. I want to control them with scripts. Thanks! :slight_smile:

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Any luck? please share if you found it

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I’ve found a way, don’t know if it is the best but it works.

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store actor location
Store final position you want backward.
play timeline for 1 second
this timeline force play animation backward until the sweep overlap something (at this point it stop and back to Idle)