How to setup a 3rd Person Character BP with a box collider?

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Hi,

Coming from Unity (yeah I’m a newbie with BP), my ‘problem’ seems quite simple:

‘I have a cube/box as a player, when I want it to move, I move it by a script and add a collider that suits my shape separately; in this situation a ‘box’.’

But, as far as I know the only BP setup I can find provides me with a baked in Capsule collider, which I cannot delete or replace. (I checked several forums with people dealing with the same problem back in 2016-ish) But it cant be that hard to setup a character BP with a box collider right? Please say I missed something fundamentally here.

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Since your character is a Box - not really a biped, perhaps you do not need a Character but a simple Pawn. This way you can configure it the way you want. It kind of depends what you expect from your BoxyBox to do.

A Character is a Pawn with a lot of unique functionality.

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Thank you. From a Unity point of view it is quite confusing to work with Actors, Pawns and Characters. But I understand the idea behind it now:

An Actor is just like a GameObject.
A Pawn is actually a player character.
And a Character is like you mentioned just a Pawn extraordinair.

Great! I’m on it. Thanks again.

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Dibs on Pawn extraordinair! Missed opportunity by Epic.

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Ha. I realize it’s almost a synonym for their company name…

PS: I found out a "Default Pawn’ class even has a MovementComponent attached to it. Which makes me even more happy, because the absence of this component in the regular “Pawn” class almost drove me mad.

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Oh. Forget that last note. The Default Pawn class also comes with a fixed CollisionComponent. Back to square 1: figuring out how to make my pawn move from scratch. If you happen to know a good tutorial for this one, please comment, I cant find one. Or I’m looking in the wrong place/tags.