Hi, I am new to blueprints. I am trying to move my character left and right along the axis using widget buttons. But can’t for the life of me figure out were to use what nodes.
I have a Widget Blueprint and a Player pawn that is connected to my game mode and plugged in correctly.
Appreciate the advice. Thank you 
move my character left and right along the axis using widget buttons.
The below can be set up much better but, at the most fundamental level, it’s this:
To make it better, have user widgets (each with a Button and a custom Event Dispatcher) output direction.
In a more nuanced setup, you could inject an Enhanced Input action into a possessed pawn directly from the widget.
Hi thank you for posting.
Is it possible to set it up the same way for the other button as well?
Or can I only fire one button using this?
Yes:
This way you can hook up all movement directions to the same event.
Thank you so much
Hope it helps!
Hi
apologies
This wont link to here. I created the button called left and I added in all the functionality above #
You need a:
You are adding custom user widget buttons to the viewport directly instead. You skipped this part:
The UI should have those 2 custom buttons you made, here you can set their data. And add any other UI elements, healthbars and whatnots.
The general idea when working with UMG is to make small modular user widgets out of native elements (buttons, borders, progress bars) and add those to the Main UI which you bring up to the viewport.
Sorry I’m too lost.
I don’t know how to bring a widget with a button by itself over into another widget. Or were i’m setting the functionality.
I’ll just pass for now.
Thank you for your help, it’s much appreciated.
You’d have 2 widget in this case:
wDirectionButton is the custom button with the Event DispatcherwMainUI is the widget that contains 2x wDirectionButton sYou add them the same way you add any other widget:
I renamed them to LEFT / RIGHT to make it clearer. You then bring up the Main UI to the viewport:
It already contains those 2 buttons.
Hi I got the first part set up.
My custom event however wont link to the ED Send Direction. Says delegate is not compatible with delegate.
Avoid plopping down orphaned nodes, start with dragging a wire first, then search for what is needed, taking advantage of the Context Sensitive nature of the actions menu:
The same goes with plugging the wires into nodes, the order in which you do it will occasionally matter since wildcard (grey) pins will inherit type.
If in doubt, consider attaching a screenshots showing what generates the errors. In case you want to study it up close, here’s a link to the sample project UE5 v5.3.1:
Thank you for taking your time.
It’s working
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