Help with Left/Right animations

[FrankieV]

@Lina Halper;208706

I’d use blendspace for left/right with parameter with root motion everywhere on anim blueprint.
With 4.6, the root motion everywhere should be available. You’ll have to drive the blendspace using your turn direction

>>Is there a technical reason why an animation BP can not preform the same functions as a character BP?
>>Key bindings still need to be placed in the character BP

Yes, input can be handled by component or actor. AnimInstance is none of them.
Also ideally AnimInstance is not the driving force of event but receiver. They read state of current system and perform animation, not triggering it.

>>Not sure if it’s a camera thing but the character will run forward but I can’t seem to get it to strafe left and right so it’s suggested that the character can only move forwards and backwards from it’s root.

There is flag in Pawn that makes Pawn to use Controller Rotation Yaw, which binds camera to side turning, so you don’t be able to see it. You can uncheck that.

Thanks,

–Lina,

LOL

Yeah I figured it out. Casting should not be called casting but rather “take stuff from the other guy”

Also so my bad about movement in general. Seems when I exported from MB I forgot to bake the rotation down into the root.