Hi Unrealers,
I’m sure many of have played games like Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Tekken. I am trying to get my character to move backwards and always facing the opponent in Blueprint. Any suggestions?
Please, help me with a step by step guide. I have many theory ideas but couldn’t implement any of them.
Best wishes
Which part exactly do you have issues with?
There is a really easy way to always face your opponent. The node is called “Get look at rotation”. You place it in your character, input the current location of your enemy and get the rotation you are looking for. Just use that to “Set” your actor rotation and you’re already good to go on this part.
For the movement itself it’s a bit more difficult. You will also need some work done on the camera to move accordingly but both of those things really depend on what exactly you want to create.
…in general however I would suggest to not start with a fighting game as it’s rather complex and difficult to create compared to a basic fps or twinstick shooter or something like that. Create one of those, play a little with the movement and then come back to this project and it’ll seem a lot easier and actually doable! 
Erasio gave me great feedback. With his help I got the player to face each other and turn if they happen to cross each other. Now the only problem left is the that the player is making “moon walk” when walking backwards. Erasio did instruct me on how to make it work but unfortunately I couldn’t make it work. If anyone has a snap shot showing how to get the player do backwards walk animation would be extremely helpful.
this is what I have so far
I think you want to decouple character rotation from movement. Open your character blueprint defaults and uncheck: Orient Rotation to Movement.
Now when your character is facing left and moves right, he will do so without changing his facing direction. Your animation blueprint will detect that its walking backwards and use the correct animation.
well, that’s already done but animBP didn’t detect anything. probably needs to setup something there to let it know when to play the backwards animation, right?
I played with nodes and got it working. I have absolutely no idea what I did, nor how it worked but thought I should share it anyway if anyone can explain it. The only problem with it the character walks very slow backwards. I dig more and see if I can fix it.
At the moment trying to get the camera right in the center of the two characters. It keeps shifting towards player1 and player2 ends up out of the frame. Any ideas?
OK, the problem was the upper corners in the blendspace. I shouldn’t have backward animation there. As soon as I removed them it works perfectly now 
Hey Raed I know this is a little late but I’m also having problems with the character facing each other blueprint. Im using Find Look at Rotation node connected to Set Actor Rotation. But I dont know what to put for the start and target vectors.
I tried Get Player Character (index 0) -> Get Actor Location -> and this is plugged into the Start socket of “Find Look at Rotation”
and also Get Player Character (index 1) -> Get Actor Location -> set to target in “find look at rotation” and the value of that is plugged into Set actor location but this doesnt seem to work.
