Unreal Engine 4 - Beginners Guide to Player Input (1/2)

In this Beginners Guide for Unreal Engine 4, we start with a blank project and then add the ability to move/look around from scratch and we will be doing this from a first person perspective. In part two, we switch to third person and create a sidescroller template by using a simple box as our character.

[AlexeyDFilimonov]

This is one of the best tutorials for people that like 'building from stratch'. Awesome!

[mariusklokkernes]

Thank you! Somehow I spent a total of more than 1 week doing this. Turned out I was not making any kind of player input thing at all. Cannot believe how simple that was. I used this video to help my Bachelor project. I have given you credit on my blog :)

[KonkelVonk]

Quick to the point, no babble talk, GREAT!!!

[frypizzabox]

Please, continue with "From Scratch" tutorials! That's was simple but extremely useful!!

[lonecolamarine]

You are already SO much more helpful than their site, thank you!

[shadowclans]

Excellent tutorial. Works perfectly. I followed another tutorial directly from Unreal, but it had issues with movement. I spent quite a while back tracking... but this one works right out the gates. 

[ShottysGotShots]

If you have the same problem I had where none of this changes your character movement, go to settings > world settings > game mode, then select game mode override and choose the mode you just created.

[remon]

good tutorial Tesla. However It is hard to follow blueprint creations when you are not familiar with the actual meaning of the nodes (and their function.) Me and my friends would love to see some tutorials going over all the important and most used Variables/Nodes to really understand "why" you do something rather then "how".

[KieranMayer]

Awesome! I tried doing this myself, but I couldn't quite get it working. Keep up the good work

[shingAMarie]

This is a great video,   straight to the point no fluff!! Thanks.

[ukaszstasiun]

Great tutorial, you would be able to ever try to create a blueprint for a gearbox for racing game and show it jakotutorial? Many would probably help me in this.

[kierstenl]

very nice tutorial even with the updates to ue 4 I was able to do everything on this tutorial thanks so much!!

[christosioannou]

Brilliant - do you have any VR tutorials fot picking up objects? I dont have any VR Goggles yet, but need to setup picker object.. Totally NEW to UE4 - Keep up the great work!!!

[ManojChauhan-kldh]

very precious tut bro ur short and point to point

[voxelfusion]

Excellent tutorial and still up to date!

[metalmarketonline]

Really easy to understand and straight forward. thanks!

Also, I'm trying to figure out how to add a Character "roll" function on the 'q' and 'e' keys. the idea is to work in a zero G environment in which you can freely rotate the character to have anyway as up or down. So far I can only seem to get the camera to rotate 90 degrees each way but the mouse look is locked to the level 'Z' axis. Any help or a tutorial would be awesome!

Thanks again!

[lexjo]

Works like a charm-- thanks for the great tutorial.

[erikm]

Dear Tesla, your tutorials are great, but think you could make them in 1080p? Even @ 720p they look a bit blurry and some text is hard to read

[yungmemeboi]

Awesome video man. Just what I needed. Great clear explanations :)

[Darkrender]

You need to do one like this but with C++. There are literally no C++ tutorials out there on how to do this.