How can make a box i can control in a sidescroller

I realize this is probably painfully basic to most, but I’m an animator so be programming is new for me. :slight_smile: I’m trying to wrap my head around blueprint and thought I’d make a uber basic little boxy sidescroller for practice. For the life of me though i can not seem to make a bouncing box, or anything else, that I can control. I see that there’s the premade my character blueprint I can plop down, but I can’t seem to make sense of what’s going on in that, and haven’t had much luck editing it either. Honestly there’s so many of the blueprint functions that I have no point of reference for that i’m not even sure if I’m asking the right question. Thanks!

You might want to check out this video from the devs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5pIrpI7py8

It shows how to make a box actor move around via keyboard input; I guess you could extend from there.

Thanks! Hopefully I can run with that.