Editing Paragon Gideon BP to work with my sidescroller game

Hey, so I recently got started with Unreal and it’s been great so far. I have built a sidescroller game from scratch using the free assets on the Marketplace. For my main character, I replaced the mesh and animations with the Paragon Gideon character.
My problem is that the character moves freely on the Z axis while I just want to him to face right or left while moving as it is a sidescroller game. I did try messing with the Blueprint myself and I managed to do it (idk how really) but now the animation for walking/running doesn’t work, he simply glides along the floor. I was wondering if someone could help on how to correctly configure the Blueprint to work.