Text Based Input As Control Scheme

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Hi There,

Noob here,

I have been trying to think of the best way to implement this idea:

Basically, having a GUI with set phrases in text boxes that allow user input

Surrounding a game view in the centre of screen which reacts in real time to user commands

i.e [Move Player] [x] [positions to the left]
[Move Player] [x] [positions to the right]

Where [x] is the users input and gets accepted in to a variable and used as a command to move player

Any ideas / reccomendations?

Thanks in advance 

Have placed in Student Forum also, but thought I'd be better posting here aswell as Student Zone doesn't seem to get as many views?
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Those remind me of dev commands. Pretty sure UE4 has many commands like that by default, though I don’t lnow how to restrict some or enable some ingame.

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You mean like a text-adventure?

You type in what you want the player to do…?

I’ll look into it.

~ Jason

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Yeah. But you type in what you want to do and instead of text story it’s an actual graphical representation (just tiles from top down view)

Thanks for the help

5

Alright.

I’ll let you know if I get anywhere.

~ Jason

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Thanks again Jason. Much appreciated

7

No problem.

~ Jason