Using the shooter game example as a base?

[anonymous_user_380d3d741 (anonymous_user_380d3d74)]

Feels like someone has taken a huge book, cut everything up and plastered it back together in some pattern I don’t know.
And then I’m supposed to get a grip on it… I don’t even know where to start.

So I was going to import my own charactermodels.

I have this site that led me through importing stuff to the FPS blueprint. But now It seems useless.
[URL=“https://docs.unrealengine/latest/INT/Engine/Animation/CharacterSetupOverview/index.html”]

The primary workflow for character setup in UE4 is as follows:

1. Create your art assets (Skeletal Meshes) and animations, using a 3rd party digital content creation (DCC) package such as 3ds or Maya.
2. Import your Skeletal Meshes and animations into UE4, either creating a new Skeleton asset for new Skeletal Meshes, or reusing an existing Skeleton asset for identical or similar Skeletal Meshes.
3. Create a PlayerController script or Blueprint to handle inputs from the player.
4. Create a Character or Pawn script or Blueprint to parse inputs and control the actual movement (not skeletal animation) of the character.
5. Construct the Animation Blueprint for the character.
6. Create a GameMode script or Blueprint that utilizes your custom PlayerController and any other custom script assets.
   Play your game!

Having a hard time relating between the two.

Yes importing the graphical aspects into the shooter example isn’t hard.

But then I come to the scripts and blueprints, and I’m just befuddled.