Vertical Movement Input

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hi.

There appears to be an issue with Vertical movement.
If i want to add vertical movement nothing happens.
Gravity is set to 0. When i collide with a ramp the player does float upwards.
But i want the vertical movement to be triggered with an event.

As a test, i set event tick, set movement component - ZAxis 90 degrees scale 1.
This does absolutely nothing at all.
If i change the axis to X or y it does work.

So something must be preventing the player from receiving that input.
However i have tried setting character can fly, tried doing it with jump etc. But no luck.

Any advise would be appreciated. I looked at example content but none of them sets vertical movement components.

I can make it work with a lerp offset but i dont want that because i want the “drag” effect of being in space.

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Hi.

Thank you. Yes i want to the move the player vertical upwards or downwards.
I eventually discovered that if the player is not in Fly mode then the vertical movement does not work.

So i set the movement mode to flying and then i could control the vertical movement.

http://s30.postimg.org/ed7x8mmht/Vertical.jpg

My confusion was that vertical movement did not work at all. I was not aware that fly mode has to be enabled.

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I can’t quite understand your question, but it seems you want to move the player upwards, you can do this with the ‘launch character’ node :slight_smile:

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  1. You probably should’ve posted this as a comment on my answer :wink:
  2. The ‘launch character’ node allows you to give the player vertical movement in any mode :slight_smile:
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Cool. Will look into this launch character node thingy.

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You should probably set my answer as the correct one as yours wasn’t the actual answer and it could confuse some people with a similar need :slight_smile: