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Evilrunic · August 27, 2023, 2:14pm

Hi yall, I have a main menu widget to start the game. Then once play is clicked the character is spawned into the world, I set none for the default pawn.

Then I get the character camera view and HUD but no way to control the character

Any ideas on what I might be missing would be appreciated, thanks.

ClockworkOcean · August 27, 2023, 2:37pm

Is it a controllable character? Does it have that code in it?

Evilrunic · August 27, 2023, 2:40pm

Hi Clockwork, yes the character is controllable. Not sure what you mean by that but he has movement and attack options that worked before I implemented the menu spawn.

ClockworkOcean · August 27, 2023, 2:41pm

Ok, just checking, because some people think that inheriting from ‘character’ is enough

Evilrunic · August 28, 2023, 12:49am

Oh that’s understandable, it works fine if I just let it spawn in as default pawn and without switching my viewport to the main menu at the beginning of the game.

ClockworkOcean · August 28, 2023, 5:44am

I looks ok, just try switching the node order maybe… ‘set input’ before possess?

Evilrunic · August 28, 2023, 4:09pm

I think the problem might be the character class is doing too much

ClockworkOcean · August 28, 2023, 5:11pm

Still looks ok

ClockworkOcean · August 28, 2023, 5:57pm

I just tried this, to put my mind at rest. Mine ( very similar to yours ) works.

The only thing I can think of, is you might be jammed on some scenery.

To avoid that, put a player start in the level, and

Evilrunic · August 28, 2023, 5:59pm

When it is set as the default pawn I can move him with wasd but I have to hold right click to move the camera

ClockworkOcean · August 28, 2023, 6:33pm

Why not try the whole thing with the default 3rd person first. At least then, you can figure out if your pawn is causing problems.

Evilrunic · August 28, 2023, 6:42pm

I’m confused why would I create another character this one already works I know the pawn is fine it only broke when I added the main menu component

ClockworkOcean · August 28, 2023, 6:44pm

If it doesn’t work when it’s in the game mode, then it seems that something’s wrong.

Anyway, I’m not saying make a new character, I’m just saying, use the default one to find out what the problem is.

Evilrunic · August 28, 2023, 6:46pm

This is default first person I just edited the camera on it I don’t have an unedited version of it

Evilrunic · August 28, 2023, 6:56pm

Most of it is still the standard first person movement but for some reason just wont give me any movement unless default pawn is set and even then it doesn’t give proper mouse input

Evilrunic · August 29, 2023, 12:01am

Here is something else interesting default HUD is none but the debug prints show that an extra is created at the beginning where is it not level bp, not character bp, not gamemode bp.