Hi, I would like to have a system where, if you press right bumper, the character on screen switches to another character. Ideally, there would be two icons, one on the right and one on the left that show which character you would switch to when pressing left or right bumper, and if you press a bump…

If you want to use standard nodes, the process might look something like this. Do Once nodes help prevent input spamming - maybe not necessary here but anyways a good safety check. I would then first check that this controller actually has a pawn (Is Valid?) before doing anything else - followed by …

For all who come to this, I haven’t found a good way to do this, but I came across a different way to start. I just have an issue where the newly spawned character doesn’t spawn in the last character’s location. [329222-4.png]

Oh - well you almost got it while I was typing. Try saving the transform to a variable before destroying the first guy and you’ll have it.

Hey 1I2Hawk, Thanks for the help! I feel like I almost have it. I think I have to move this ability to the PlayerController instead of storing the code within each character blueprint since this is a functionality between the 3 characters. How you have it set up isn’t working in the playercontrolle…

Yes correct - this should definitely not go in the character BPs because they’re getting destroyed and spawned while this is logic is trying to run and having multiple copies of code is generally a pain to debug later. The player controller is a good spot because that persists on behalf of the play…

I’ll try to set it up without an array right now, but an array sounds best. I’m just so new to this I don’t know how to set up an array of the character blueprints. Do I make it a variable? Also, check the screenshot below. It’s still not working correctly, even without the select node.

When it’s in the Character Blueprint, it works, but it spawns a new character while keeping the old character on screen, doesn’t destroy them, and in the PlayerController it doesn’t work at all. [329209-6.png]

So, I can get the pawn to spawn, but it still spawns not in the same spot as the previous pawn, and also, the previous pawn doesn’t get destroyed. [329210-7.png]

Again, this logic is still inside the character you might be destroying halfway thru so start moving this code into your player controller first or it won’t work. Over there, create a new Variable and under its Type dropdown, type in the word “Actor” - hover over that in the list (it’s the top one)…

Oh - just to double check - make sure in your map’s Windows → World Settings that you are actually calling your custom player controller there if the code doesn’t seem to work. You might be writing code in a player controller but not actually using that when you’re going to test. Easy to forget th…

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jakebaker865 (jakebaker865) February 8, 2021, 7:43pm 6