Character change direction smoothly

Development Character & Animation
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Hi!

I’m making a game where I want the movement to be smooth.
I want to be able to play with a gamepad, have it so that if I’m running forward and press backwards, the character instantly turns (for some reason in UE4 Thirdperson the character takes a while to turn, several units and this makes a platform game less than optimal). But if I run forward and start going left or right its still a smooth curve of a turn. If I max the Rotation Rate of my character blueprint, it gets all static and the character will basically only run in 4-8 directions.
It gets too choppy and I’ve tried several different methods but I can’t seem to figure out how to register if I am clicking in the opposite direction or less. Having a smooth transition here would be nice, as in rotation rate increasing or lowering depending on how far from forward direction I’m clicking/turning the gamepad.

Any Idea how I could achieve this? Any help would be WILDLY appreciated!

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Have you looked into using LERP rotator?

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Does increasing/decreasing the “Max Acceleration” in the CharacterMovement component help a little?

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I’d also consider the Rinterp BP node (rotator interpolation). Maybe heck out Matthew Wadstein’s or others videos on youtube for how to use RLERP and RINTERP

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Yea that would work too.

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This could work for sure!
I’m thinking if I set current rot to be my character. And the target rot to be where I want my character to turn.
How do I input where I am trying to rot my character?
Not sure how I could get the input info from where my controller is telling the character to go next.

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This does make it so that if I turn the character turns around before he starts moving forward. That is half the job done, I need the character to be responsive and switch to a direction instantly, both in speed and rotation.
I just want to be able to do it without having choppy movement :slight_smile:

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yes, I think you’ve got the right idea… this is fairly straightforward, you can just google and youtube search and you’ll see how it’s done…

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smooth and fluid often needs to balanced against fast and choppy… if you are using Interp/Lerp, increase the speed to increase responsiveness

also smooth the camera movement, this adds to any choppy appearance

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Hi I know this is old but I’ve been asking around for this same answer, before I came across this same question on ue4 I’ve been trying all kinds of stuff funny thing the first idea I had was using a lerp but I had no idea how to set it up with my movement inputs. I then thought about a timeline and using it through the event tick with the lerp rotator am I going in the right direction? I’ve been trying to use the lerp with the control rotation don’t know why it isn’t working though…could you help a gal out?