[C++ scripting]Starting out with UE4: How do I associate a character with a PlayerController?

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So the way I gather it, the advised way to do things is to have input handled by the player controller, then the Pawn/Character class on the object will handle turning that input into actual motion/whatever.

So my question is: say my player object has a PlayerController component and a Character component. I have a “MoveForward” method on the Character class, and I want to bind the “MoveForward” control axis to that method. But I want to do so within the PlayerController class. So how do I get a reference to the character which is on the player’s object, so that I can pass it to BindAxis? Basically I want something along the lines of:

In PlayerController:

void PlayerController::SetupPlayerInputComponent(class UInputComponent* inputComponent)
{
    ACharacter* pointerToThisObjectsCharComponent = Actor.GetComponent(ACharacter);

	inputComponent->BindAxis("MoveForward", pointerToThisObjectsCharComponent, &ACharacter::MoveForward);	//binds the "MoveForward" axis to this character's MoveForward method.
}

How do I do this?

Thank you for any replies.

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Why do you want to do the binding in the Playcontroller if the character can bind the function within its own class?

So in your character, use the setup input:

 void ACharacter::SetupPlayerInputComponent(class UInputComponent* inputComponent)
 {
     inputComponent->BindAxis("MoveForward", this, &ACharacter::MoveForward);
 }