Implementing a True First Person camera

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• The general setup (script) is: create a custo playercontroller class, create a custo Character class, assign the custom PlayerController + Character classes in a custom GameMode?

Yes, that’s the general way to do it and I do it like this as well.

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• In the PlayerController class, i am clueless about the code used in the GetPlayerCameraInput() and IsCameraInputEnabled() functions, and to create/populate the ViewYawSpeed/ViewPitchSpeed variables.

Lot’s of people are confused by this part in my code : it’s actually custom functions but nothing very special. So I did an addendum to my blog-post about those, take a look again !

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• In the Character class, i have doubt about the FirstPersonCameraComponent creation (did you create and positioned the Camera component in the script?). Can you share more info? I am creating the camera in a blueprint derived from the custom Character class, but then i can´t access it from code.

The Camera component is created in the constructor of my Character and then attached to the head bone of my Character Skeletal Mesh Component. I use the native class, not a custom one. In you case you may want to look into how to spawn/create component based on a blueprint class. Such as : Spawn Blueprint from C++ - Editor Scripting - Epic Developer Community Forums

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• In the Character class, how did you create a local variable (CameraLocalRotation) that can be acessed by the animation blueprint?

I have a function in my Character class that can be accessed via Blueprint. In the Event Graph of my AnimBlueprint I use the “Event Blueprint Initialize Animation” node to get the Pawn Owner and the cast it to my Character class. This way I get a reference to my Character and can query the Camera variable.