Input Not Detected (Simple Print String)

Development Programming & Scripting
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I was following the tutorials, and I got stuck on a quite simple one.

Outputting a number to the screen when you press E.

I created a new blank project, deleted everything from the scene. Then I created a blueprint where when you press “E” it set a variable to count + 1. (the One variable is defaulted to 1)

When this didn’t work, I suspected it was Print String not working as I expected it, so I added a print every tick. But that one worked as expected and displayed “0” every tick.

http://s28.postimg.org/m67on5p71/Print_String.png

My Scene really is empty so I am not sure what is wrong.

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Do I need 3d assets to capture the events ?

I also tried adding the “E” to the input action binding with no luck.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

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Ok so you should have this in your character blueprint. You can have it in a blueprint placed in the level as well but that’s a very messy way to handle input functions.

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You probably need to enable input for your blueprint. On the event Begin Play do an Enable Input.

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Thanks this led me right to the answer.

When adding the Enable Input in blueprint, i could not select a Player Controller since my scene was empty. But in the property of my instance (details / Input ) there is a dropdown “Auto Receive Input” set to disabled by default.

Once I set it to player 0 my inputs were working properly.

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I’ll keep that in mind, but right now it’s purely exploration