I’m brand new to UE4, and reading up on tutorials and the likes to help myself learn the blueprint system.
What I am trying to achieve is a top down WASD movement system, but with the mouse used as an aiming point.
So far I’ve got the rotation sorted out, it points to where the mouse is, and W & S goes forward and back to where the mouse is pointing on the screen.
The problem I’m having now is with strafing.
I can get it to strafe on the Y axis with no problem… but say if the character is moving forward on the Y axis, and I press “A” to strafe left… he will just continue going in that direction.
So ultimately I need help with strafing, so that the character will move side to side based on where the location of the mouse is on the screen.
Here is what I have so far (sorry for the mess, really I’m new to this).
You have to set a proper value for “World Direction” on the RightMovement. This gonna be the vector you are using for the forward input, just rotated 90 degrees to the right.
Thanks, I got a bit further, but just can’t seem to get the angles right.
I tried placing the current mouse location as the vector, and added +90 on Y in axis, but it was a bit strange. Tried also feeding off the forward movement into the vector on this node, and adjusted the Y axis, but it just keeps going forwards and backwards, instead of side to side.
If you have a valid forward vector then getting the right/strafe vector is pretty simple. Try just using a “Rotate Vector” node based on your forward vector.
