The documentation for the Character Movement Component(CMC) says: “it is an Actor Component that provides an encapsulated movement system with common modes of movement for humanoidcharacters”.
Anyone that can tell me what in the CMC is specifically for humanoids?
And also, what issues, if any, would I have if I used it for a quadruped, e.g. a dog or a cat?
I only need it for the same basic movements my humanoid pawns would use like walking, swimming and jumping, and also replication(which is built into the CMC).
Most of these differences would be handled by the animations, or am I missing something?
You’d use the character movement component for characters that’ll have typical movement mechanics with no funny business. It would suffice in most cases where you need it to handle ground movement, air movement, jumping, crouching, standing on surfaces, etc. but if your “characters” were cubes for example that are supposed to go in four directions on user input, they could as well just be pawns since they don’t need to utilize the movement component.
My explanation above is what would be considered while deciding whether to use the movement component (in other words deciding between using a character or a pawn class), not the design of the model. Because the movement component doesn’t use the mesh, it uses the capsule component.
