Gamepad Axis Character Movement

Development Character & Animation
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Hi Guys, new to character animation in UE4. Struggling with an issue. Is there a way to set the scale value of y/x axis for character movement if controlling via gamepad, so the same as WSAD action key mappings. So even if a little bit of the gamepad axis is pressed, set the scale value to 1.

How would you approach this? I have had a look at quite a few examples but none deal with the issue for gamepad.

So if I have a character walking, rather than filling in animation blend space with slow animations or trying to resolve it otherwise when moving slowly, can the scale value be set to 1 when pressed and how? Any pitfalls or suggestions to approach it differently?

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On the Axis Input event, check to see if greater than .1 or something. If it is, then clamp it to 1. (and handle negative values in a similar manner)

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Hey, I managed to get the positive axis working, how do I tackle the negative values, as the scale value only works on the moveforward event?

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I managed to fix it using another condition, is working fine now for both Forward and Right and positive, negative values, Thanks.

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A question though, is above an efficient way to tackle this, or is there a better way?

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Seems insanely convoluted for what you’re trying to do

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Doing this sort of thing will give you stepped 45 degree rotation too though which is pretty wonky

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Super, above works great. I did look into using ABS but didn’t know how to integrate it, still new to things on this side of UE4.