Customize spawn location without the PlayerStart object

[TheCosmicAC0 (StarmanDeluxe)]

With a bit more searching I found a solution. I believe the best approach is to delete PlayerStart and instead drag the Pawn into the world and position it where desired. Then, go into the Details of the Pawn and find Auto Possess Player and set to Player 0. The result is that the game will auto-possess the Pawn when the game starts.

Here’s the source for this approach.

Spawn Player without PlayerStart

Heya! Hmm… May´be I missed something, but I need a little help or howto. At the moment my player character is spawned by PlayerStart. This is not too bad, but I would like to spawn the player character on my own, by just placing the blueprint into my level/map. When just drag and drop MyPlayerCharacter(of parent class character) into my level/map nothing happens - means my camera is not set correctly and so on. When having MyPlayerCharacter and PlayerStart, then I can move th…