Frustrated with movement

Hi there,

I’m working on a game and I’m getting quite frustrated, as however I do my movement, I feel it looks janky and not what I want.
For example(3rd person): when I turn the character while idle, it rotates in place.

I’m looking to create a movement system similar to the survivors in Friday the 13th: The Game. It shouldn’t be impossible, it’s also made using Unreal.

Sorry if this is a complex question, but no online resources have helped me and asking here is my last hope.

Thanks in advance.

Hi M1IO,

The mechanic you’re talking about is called exactly that: Rotate In Place - You tube has quite a few tutorials on it.

Also, you can use the Lyra Starter game as an example to look at with Rotate in Place code - or the ALS (Advanced Locomotion System) on the marketplace (free section) has all of that too:

There is also a component coming to the marketplace soon that you can easily add to existing characters:

I like the ALS, but it is too complicated to understand what it’s doing for someone like me who isn’t the most experienced with it.

I tried replicating the rotate in place, but without luck.

It sounds like that last one might be a good option - the author has submitted it to the marketplace so it shouldn’t be too far away now…

I just realised that that’s not exactly what I want.
I don’t want the character to move at all. So the camera can be rotated without turning the character.

Here’s a clip of basically exactly what I’m looking for from Friday the 13th: The Game: https://milomb.wistia.com/medias/585noja40u
While I’m running back and forth at the end, I am holding W and S, without moving the camera.

Any ideas?

That should be how the camera behaves if you’ve based your character from the Epic Third Person Template - did you start with the FirstPerson Template?

Yes. I changed my mind mid-way through.

I didn’t know that not using it would have such an impact.
I copied all the camera settings, etc. over.

I guess I’ll just move my bps over there.

Yeah that should make it easier in the long term as well…

Thank you. Would you mind marking your response as an answer? I can then confirm it…

You’re welcome!

You should see a “solution” button at the bottom of the post - only the person who asked the question sees it…

Yeah. I heard from someone else that the author needs to mark it as an answer first. I don’t see any option.

I don’t see one either - I’ve never actually asked a question so I’ve never seen one, but according to the forum, it has to be started as a question…