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‫Hello and welcome.

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‫In this lecture, we're going to be looking at how we can control our own character, how we can customize

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‫the mesh and fix a bug in the camera movement.

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‫Let's dive in and see how this is done.

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‫So let's look at customizing this character away from this boring default mannequin.

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‫Now, you might be tempted to go ahead and just customize the character here in the scene, but I would

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‫recommend that you don't do that.

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‫Instead, that we create a blueprint child class off of this third person character.

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‫And the way we can do that is by going over into the details pane and selecting the blueprint button

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‫and clicking the Create Child Blueprint class.

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‫So that allows us to add our own modifications on top of the character class that we've already brought

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‫in.

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‫So I'm going to call mine the BP underscore third person character, and I'm going to put this at the

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‫root of our content folder.

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‫So I'll click on the path and select content and then click okay.

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‫And then we're going to go ahead and click Select and that will open up our BP third person character

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‫and allow us to modify it.

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‫Now, one thing you will notice if you go ahead and play in the main level is that it doesn't actually

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‫start using our character.

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‫It spawns in its own character here.

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‫And that's because we've got a player start.

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‫Let's go ahead and delete that player start.

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‫But even if we do that, it's not enough to make us use the character we've brought in to the level.

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‫To do that, we have to signal to the engine.

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‫That's the character we want to use for our player.

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‫Zero.

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‫So if we go over to the blueprint for a second here, we're going to go in to the details pane and search

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‫for auto possess player and here it's currently set to disabled.

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‫I want to select player zero and that tells the engine that this character should be possessed automatically,

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‫should be controlled automatically by player zero.

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‫So let's go ahead and save that.

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‫Go ahead and play in the main level.

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‫And now you can see that I have got the character.

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‫His arm looks a little bit funky there because we're using the wrong mesh and I can't move left and

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‫right with my mouse.

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‫So let's sort out the left and right thing first.

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‫Now, the reason for this is that our inputs are slightly different to this character than those required

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‫or assumed by this starter kit.

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‫So what we need to do is edit the casual characters blueprint.

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‫So we're going to go into the content folder, the casual character folder, the blueprints.

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‫Then we're going to open the third person character.

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‫So this is a different blueprint to the third person that we've created off the back of it.

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‫And you will notice in here that there are a couple of compiler errors and you can click on the little

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‫looking glass or the little symbol next to the looking glass to find where these are.

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‫You can see that they're related to the turn rate axis event, which is basically how our turning has

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‫been set up.

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‫Now, we don't need to go into too much detail about what this is.

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‫You can see it's an event.

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‫It happens whenever you try and turn the mouse or you turn a controller and it is currently set up to

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‫something that is not configured for our project.

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‫So what we need to do is right click in an empty space and search for turn and you will find that there

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‫are some events here.

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‫There is an axis event called Turn Right, Right and turn right.

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‫We need the turn right rate at the top here to replace this current event and then we can move the pins

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‫that it's connected to by clicking control and dragging it onto the new pins to connect up to the new

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‫event.

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‫Then we can delete the event that has a warning attached to it.

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‫Move the old one in place and then there's one more warning for one called turn.

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‫We can right click an empty space again.

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‫Search for turn, find the event called Turn Right, which we're going to replace it with control.

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‫Click on the pins to move them over to the new event, delete the old and move it into place.

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‫So that's just updated this blueprint so that it works with the control scheme configured in the project.

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‫And if we go ahead and hit play now, you will notice that we can rotate the camera around and move

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‫as we would expect.

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‫So I'd like to challenge you to customize your character.

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‫You're going to do this by editing your BP third person characters.

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‫That's this one here, and particularly the mesh component in the components pane.

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‫You're going to select that and you're going to be using the details pane over here to select a skeletal

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‫mesh of your choosing.

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‫So go ahead and change the mesh to something that you prefer.

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‫Try out the different ones and see which one you want to use.

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‫Pause the video and have a go.

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‫Okay.

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‫Welcome back.

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‫So with this skeletal mesh property available, which again, we go to the mesh and components, then

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‫to the details pane down to the mesh section and there's a property called skeletal mesh.

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‫And then what you want to do is click the dropdown and have a little scroll through here to have a look

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‫at what meshes are available.

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‫Now, some of them come from the starter kit and some of them come from the character that we've brought

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‫in so I can select.

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‫There are a couple of pre-made, fully formed characters in here.

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‫One is just in his underwear and then there's some with different clothing on.

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‫I'm going to select number three and you can see here it comes in with some pretty cool looking sunglasses

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‫and we can go into our level and see that that character has indeed been updated over here, too.

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‫So if I go ahead and play, I can now play.

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‫As this character has run animations work correctly, his jump animations work just fine and the character

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‫camera movement works as well.

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‫Fantastic.

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‫Let's dive on to the next lecture.