Game Modes, Controllers, Pawns, and Possession

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I’m trying to build an asymmetrical game where different players will have different controllers that provide different functionality. In order to make testing the game from the different perspectives, I thought I would make a main menu map that lets me select which character I’m going to play as.

I have that all set up, but what I cannot figure out is how to spawn the controller, the pawn, and then have the controller possess the pawn and allow me to actually play.

I currently have no default pawn or player controller set in the Game Mode blueprint, which, based on. Is there any way to switch these at runtime (without exposing anything via C++, I’m trying to stick blueprint)? Failing that, can I have two Game Modes and switch between them in the Main Menu level before I load the next level?

Otherwise, any methods to get this to work would be great.

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you cant switch Core Classes (GM,GS,PC) mid level but you dont need to.

for the core classes you can use branches/switches for simple code, or put all the different code in difference actor components and activate/deactivate them.

the controller can possess different pawns with different inputs if you want.

if you’re spawning manually it can be done on PostLogin on the GM