How to set First Person Rotation/Forward Vector

[VisAgilis]

@Bem01

Is there a way to force the first person character to face a certain direction on teleport to a given point?

I think you’re currently only setting the location of the character on respawn, you’d also need to set the rotation of the character.

@Bem01

In my head the easiest thing to do would be to save a vector for the checkpoint and have that vector be the forward vector value of the player on teleport, but I don’t see a way to set the forward vector of the player.

The forward vector of an actor would be the direction it’s capsule component is facing, so it’s fixed. You can rotate it by rotating the actor.

Also to address your method in mind, sure you can calculate the rotation that a unit vector represents but it wouldn’t be ideal in this case, since you can directly get the rotation of an actor and use that value to set the rotation of another actor.

Hope this helps!