Getting player Input

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Guys I want the player to input where they would like to teleport to in the world and I was wondering if that was possible.

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Hi, sure its possible. If you need to know how, then you need to ask more specific =)

For example you could popup a widget to select a location (from predifined locations or just by clicking on a map or …). Or you could click a key and teleport to a preset location that is linked to that key or …

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I tried making a start screen that asked for the x y and z location then set variables to be the number that the user had inputted. In the character I set up a teleport and plugged in the variables but for some reason It is only taking the default value not the value that the user put in.

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The Teleport in your second image will be immediately called after StartCreateWidget and will therefore use the default variables you have in your StartCreateWidget.

You could make a new button in your widget and when the player clicks it relay that to the character and do the teleport.

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Could you explain how I would go about relaying to the character because all I have is a button that opens the level where the character is.

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Save a reference to the character (or playercontroller if you’re switching characters) in your widget and when you click on the button, call an event on the character / playercontroller and from that do the teleport.

You can get a reference to the player character (would need to cast it to the class you’re using) via Get Player Character | Unreal Engine Documentation

and the player controller (would again need to cast it to the class you’re using) via Get Player Controller | Unreal Engine Documentation

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OMG THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH IT WORKED