How do you change player pawn at run time when your inputs are in player controller?

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If I have all my control inputs in the player controller and I want to possess another character pawn at runtime. How do I go about doing that where it successfully changes to another pawn and keeping the same controls. Right now when I possess another pawn, I get no inputs since all the inputs are on the player controller. I tried to do the un possess before possessing new character pawn but it doesn’t do anything.

Is there something I do with the game mode? I’m using blueprints. Just not sure what nodes and the setup.

Thanks!

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Add the desired inputs to the possessed pawn, doesn’t have to be on the pawns controller.

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Thanks but the problem is that a lot of my code is in the player controller, not just inputs. Will that work too?

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What I mean is like if I had other code not input on the controller would it still work on the possessed pawn?

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I tried to move the inputs over and it was all messed up so I can’t do that. Would be nice if there was a simple way just to change the default player pawn during runtime.

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What I mean is, if you need controls for movement create additional input movement actions, like you did with the main character.

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Thanks! I’ll try just that as well!

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What you have is a common setup.

  • Player controller has a reference to a possessed (controlled) character
  • Any controllable characters either (1) inherit from a base class or (2) implement an interface for movement
  • Player controller routs commands (“the player’s will”) to the currently controlled character

Then your input chain looks like:

Player presses “Left Key” … PlayerController->MoveLeft() … ControlledPawn->MoveLeft()

Thus each controlled character can implement MoveLeft() in its own way but your PlayerController doesn’t care. It just routs commands to whatever it currently controls.

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I was able to solve it by possessing new characer and destroying old. Then reload map and teleport to location. Saved and loaded. Thanks all!