How to create my own Character that can move?

Development Character & Animation
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Hello everybody,

I just started using UE4.
I want touse C++ in VS2013.
I followed the coding tutorial on youtube…everything worked fine.

Now I thought I might start creating something on my own…
I chose the Basic Code template…and now I am allready stuck.

WhatI want to do is nothing more but to create a moveable character that may look like a simple ball and thatcan move left/right and jump.
However, I have no idea where I should even start. Can somebody please point me into the right direction?

Thanks in advance!

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There is a code template that has a ball that responds to physics. It’s in the list of templates if you scroll down.

3

Do you mean the “Code Rolling”?

4

Yes.

One thing I did when I first started out is created one of each of the templates and looked through the code. I learned a lot about things are hooked up in the engine.

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My main problem is to find out how everything is put together…and my IntelliSense always fails me…I have to compile at least once to get IntelliSense for stuff that I coded… if Ithen use new stuff I dont get any IntelliSense until I compile again…this is really annoying…especially for a beginner…(yes, I did follow the VS2013 Setup Guidelines provided by Epic :frowning: )

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Visual Studio C++ intellisense sucks, especially for larger projects like this. C# intellisense is fantastic, which makes C++ look really bad. Some people are trying to use QT Creator, there’s a thread about it here. I posted this thread on building a local copy of the UE 4 docs using Doxygen which also helps.