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‫Welcome back.

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‫In this video, we're going to talk about possession now.

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‫We're not talking about demons infesting your body.

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‫We're talking about controlling pawns in the world.

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‫So let's talk about how we can designate a pawn to be possessed.

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‫So we're back here in the ED and we have several pawns in the world now by default, none of these are

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‫designated to be possessed by a controller.

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‫That means we cannot control them.

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‫If we press play, we'll see that we have the ability to move around with the WASD keys.

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‫That's because we are controlling the default pawn.

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‫This is something built into the engine and it will be there for us if we do not designate one of our

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‫pawns to be possessed.

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‫Now, the way to designate a pawn to be possessed is to select the pawn instance in the world.

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‫And in the details.

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‫Panel search for a variable called auto possess player.

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‫Now Auto Possess Player by default is set to disabled, but if you click the dropdown, you'll see player

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‫zero through seven.

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‫Now these are not talking about multiple players in a networked multiplayer game.

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‫These would be multiple players on a single instance of the game, such as in a split screen game where

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‫two people are playing on the same console or computer.

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‫So for our game, this will always be player zero.

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‫Now what you do is you set this to Player zero for the pawn you would like to possess, and then when

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‫the game starts, that pawn will be the one possessed by player zero.

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‫And again in our game there is only one player and that is player zero.

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‫So as a challenge, I'd like you to experiment with this possession thing.

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‫Set auto, possess player to player zero on one of the turrets.

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‫See what happens.

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‫Press play and observe the results of setting this variable.

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‫Then try setting it on the tank.

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‫Now you're going to need auto possess player set to player zero only on one of the pawns at a time.

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‫Otherwise the engine doesn't know which one you mean to possess, so it's just going to pick one for

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‫you.

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‫So make sure auto possessed player is disabled on all pawns except for one at a time.

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‫Pause the video and experiment with possession now.

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‫Okay.

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‫So the first thing I'm going to try is I'm going to select one of the pond turret instances and set

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‫its auto possess player to player zero.

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‫Now if I hit play, I'll see that I'm stuck to this turret.

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‫And of course I can't move around or anything because we haven't programmed any movement and we're not

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‫even going to for the turret anyway.

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‫So this is not very exciting.

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‫It's actually kind of frustrating because we're stuck to this turret and we can't move around.

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‫We just see the tank sitting there.

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‫So I'm going to hit stop and with that same pond selected, I'm going to change this auto possess player

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‫back to disabled.

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‫Now the next thing I'm going to do is select our tank.

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‫Now, you may have noticed as soon as you selected the tank in the world, we have a little pop up window

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‫showing us the view from that tank camera.

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‫Now, this is a nice built in feature because it's showing us the view that we would have from this

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‫camera if we were possessing the pond.

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‫And we can see that if we set auto possessed player to player zero for the tank.

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‫Now let's go ahead and hit play and check it out.

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‫We see the view from the point of view of that camera.

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‫So that's pretty awesome.

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‫Now again, we can click in the viewport and try to move around, but we have not handled any input.

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‫We're not changing its location with anything in the code.

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‫That's something that we have to implement ourselves.

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‫But the possession part actually controlling the pawn that we are now accomplishing.

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‫So in summary, we learn how we can possess a pawn and that by setting its auto possessed player variable

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‫to player zero is the way to do this.

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‫So now that we're possessing the pawn, it's time to control and move the pawn and that we will cover

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‫in the lectures to come.

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‫Exciting stuff.

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‫I'll see you soon.