Continuing the development of our MMO-style controller. Contents and overview can be found in this post.

Time to make our character move! This section will focus on movement on the forward/backward axis, and the left/right strafing axis.

First things first: Deletions in the default blueprint!

If you open up the default MyCharacter (or ThirdPersonCharacter) and open up the Event Graph, you will see that it is already populated by various input controls. Make sure to delete everything inside the Movement Input and Mouse Input comment boxes. We wont be able to properly control the character and camera for now, but that will be quickly remedied.

We’re actually going to code our movement controls in MyPlayerController, so open that blueprint up to add the following functions.

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