Your First Hour in UE Tutorial Question

General Tutorial & Course Discussions
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HI,
I am following the tutorial up to the point were I create a new empty level/create the floor/add light/add player start.
The problem is in the tutorial the character is 3rd person, but when I hit play I am in first person (Every step up to this works as in the tutorial)
I am using 5.03 (the tutorial is 5.02 iirc)

Thanks.

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Some things to check:
Have you set the Player Controller class and the Default Pawn class in the Game Mode?
Have you selected the Game Mode as the default game mode?
Does your pawn (character) class actually have a camera somewhere behind the mesh?

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Thanks for the reply.

The tutorial project was in 3rd person (UnrealLearningKit) so I added a new empty level (following the tutorial) and assumed it would have duplicate settings?
I am pretty new to UE.

cheers.

4

in the world settings for the leve use the game mode override to switch to third person bp
it it isn’t there
add ->content pack-3rd person.
I normally add first and 3rd to everything, even a vr proj as it is useful to scout the scene with them and get proportion

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ah OK, I thought it would just use the same settings as the main project.
Default GameMode doesn’t have 3rd person listed but it did have the BP for the project so I selected that and now when I play I get the character in 3rd person.

thanks.

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Thank you! The same thing happened to me as well. Followed the tutorial exactly and had no 3rd person view at all.