■■■■ I forgot about the O’Rielly Books.!!! I have not read one of those since my MCSE days.
Being fully transparent this was probably a bit of an ambitious undertaking for the time I have available. Made more frustrating by the fact that I was able to pick up Unity in a week. I kind of just (incorrectly) assumed I was going to be able to pick this up in a similar time frame.
What is worse is that I get frustrated and ignore the basics just assuming its engine/c++ related.
I just had an issue where I had functions being called twice every time and for the life of me, I could not figure out why. Rather than follow some basic debug logging steps I made some incorrect assumptions that caused even more frustration. At the end of the day, it ended up being an issue where a second instance of my NPC blueprint had spawned and was out of the visible area of the Level I was looking at.
Thankfully someone on the forums kindly reminded me of the right way to troubleshoot and found the issue right away.
I have to reset the way I am approaching this because most of the problems are with me.
Thank you for all the responses, guys.