How do I save a Player's Direction?

[JGoodroad]

Hello,

I wanted to implement an autosave feature, so I followed this tutorial:

How to Save and Load your Game In Unreal Engine 5 (Easy)

The problem appears to be that while the position of the player is saved, their direction isn’t. So if someone dies facing east, they spawn facing east, regardless of their direction when first passing the autosave trigger.

I attempted to get and set the player’s camera rotation, but that doesn’t appear to be doing anything and at this point my logic is getting a bit messy. Am I doing something wrong here?

It also seems like a great deal of work if I have to set and reset every single thing I want to “reload”, is there somekind of ‘world state’ I could load/reload instead? I don’t see how this solution would scale if I had to save/load things like enemies and physics objects and the like.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[ClockworkOcean]

Try using ‘get control rotation’ and ‘set control rotation’ ( from the player controller ).

[usa423]

When you spawn the characters you can adjust rotation. If you need them to respawn in the same rotation after being destroyed then like Clockwork said use get control rotation and promote its output to variable and set it right before the destroy actor and give that data to the respawn.

[Rev0verDrive]

In your Controller class create an event “Set Client Control Rotation”.
Details panel set Replicates: Run on Owning Client.

In the Game Mode class after you spawn the character call the event.