Depending on if you seek to make a vintage esque side scroller, you might want the character to instantly turn left and right. If so, this might interest you…
I haven’t got far into my Sidescroller template yet, but I made my camera actor bp just an actor bp and made a camera as the root. Drag and drop that camera actor bp into the world, and with it still selected, go into your level bp and change to this new camera.
Here is the rest of the code in the level bp to get that new camera to follow your player.
Note the adding and subtracting nodes I marked I personally just used for tuning of camera position, hope this can help you.
