How do I make a Fez Style Camera System in UE5?

[odycco]

I’m working on a 2.5D side-scroller with a camera system similar to Fez. This video (link below) demonstrates exactly what I want, but as an intermediate-beginner in Unreal Engine, I’m struggling to understand the blueprint setup.

Testing Fez-like controls UE4

P.S. According to the creator of this video, he stated in the comments " …the general idea is on pressing a button you do a 90 degree rotation of the player character (if you only want the camera to move, simply rotate the spring arm, if you used one) on the Z axis" - Any idea how I can implement this?

[Everynone]

See if this works for you or adjust as needed:

Either rotate the character and the camera, or just the camera.

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This is just rotation, you may need to work on the controls, too.

[odycco]

@Everynone You seriously are a community hero I’ll check this out right now thanks so much for the quick response!

[odycco]

@Everynone Ok So I got everything to work as necessary thanks again for that, however how do I rotate just the camera separately from the character like you did in your video? right now my camera and character are moving simultaneously - I’m using WASD for movement

[Everynone]

You can call Spin Around with the boolean set to True or False.

[odycco]

@Everynone Sorry but how do I do that?

[Everynone]

When you create a Custom Event, add input, you can then call that Event and feed it data:

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Custom Events in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.5 Documentation | Epic...

[odycco]

@Everynone gotta be honest I’ve been trying to replicate what you did, but I can’t figure it out - if you can send over the project files I’d greatly appreciate it if not completely understand. You’ve been a huge help nonetheless, thanks for everything I’m gonna get to studying blueprints now lol

[Everynone]

This is how calling the event looked like in this case:

1 rotates the character, 2 rotates just the camera.

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Project link, just in case:

fezRotate.zip

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[odycco]

@Everynone I’m in awe of how terrible I am but even more awe of your kindness, thank you kind stranger!

[odycco]

@Everynone, I noticed my project is a third-person template while yours is top-down. Do you think that could be why I had trouble moving the camera separately from the WASD keys?

[Everynone]

Probably. As mentioned in the original post, controls will need work. Perhaps you could explain how they supposed to work in relation to the camera and character rotation.

There’s quite a few ways this can be set up. I assume you’d want to move according to the camera orientation. If so, use Forward and Right camera vectors to Add Input.

[odycco]

@Everynone Thanks again so much for your help! will get back to you if there’s any updates based on what I find