How do I interface between my PlayerController BP and my Pawn BP?

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I have my player controller BP taking in input, and I have a blueprint based on a Ship class, which inherits from Pawn. I want to receive that controller input and use it to move my pawn either inside its C++ class or its BP. How do I connect the two? I don’t want to embed controls into my pawn BP… that seems so hard-coded and not modular.

Any ideas?

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use the node in your blueprint set default controller.

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I don’t see that in either my ship (pawn)'s BP or my controller. Where exactly should I find it?

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Okay, I can find that. What does this do regarding the interfacing between my custom controller and my pawn BP? What is this ‘default controller’ and what does it do?

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ok setup should be (which you have to add to your event graph) EVENT BEGIN PLAY → SPAWN DEFAULT CONTROLLER

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Ok lets see is this separate from the normal controller class as in addition to?

if not you can set your player controller in the Game Mode if you have a custom one or check whats being used in the World Settings under Game Mode/Player Controller. Maybe this will help if you haven’t read it already. Controller

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If PlayerController possesses Pawn, they keep references to eachother:

  • You can get Pawn from
    PlayerController using “Get Controlled Pawn”
  • You can get PlayerController from
    Pawn using “Get Controller”
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It’s just a blueprint of the normal playercontroller.

I have it set as my default controller for the mode, yeah.

The question I’m asking now, I guess, is if the Pawn BP is meant to have the Axis events and what-not, or if they should exist only in the controller and then somehow get passed on to the pawn. That seems more decoupled to me, which is the ideal solution.

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This was so long ago - sorry for never marking this as the answer! Ended up using blueprint interfaces ever since.