Implementing a True First Person camera

[Jack_W_Lewis]

I’m mainly just confused as I’m used to BP and haven’t done much with scripting since C Sharp a while ago in unity. Does your guide assume you’ve made your own custom player controller and character c++ classes? Or is all the code you’ve written able to be added to the ones that come in the fps/third person unreal projects?

I’ve gone through it again and feel the actual system set up I understand from beginning to end. What’s in my way is how to start. Like do I import the third person c++ template and socket the camera to the characters head bone? Problem with this is I can’t edit the playercontroller.cpp and the UpdateRotation() from your step 1 as it’s read only. So would I copy paste the .ccps and .hs of the third person project into my own files to start?

​​​​​​Edit: I’ve been doing more learning and have made custom character and controller classes. Think I’m understanding the work flow more now. The input functions you’ve made that are binded to the mouse input confuse me though. I’m looking at how it’s done in the third person example and the input is handled through Apawn whereas yours is EPC, AYourCustomController.InputAddYaw (or close to that I don’t have visual studio open right now). I’m not sure how I get my input in the character class to run the add yaw and pitch functions in my custom controller.

Hello all,

Ignore these last two posts of mine I’ve just about set up the system. One issue I had is that my animations where going funky but I think that’s my fault so I’ll look into that myself. One thing that I can’t figure out is how the character can strafe and turn. I assumed the head was oriented in the mouse direction based off the additive poses. But the end result has the character strafing left and right whilst the head faces forwards. Is that just a case of those strafing animations being side on to begin with? And how is turning handled? It looks like you can move the head to look around without reorienting the character. But in Mirrors Edge fashion moving the head far enough to the right or left will cause the player to shift on their feet and I assume the control rotation at the same time. This doesn’t cause the players head to move even further though so is there some complex function to handle that?