Creating Character Movement With The New Enhanced Axis Mappings In Unreal Engine 5 (Tutorial)

Hey guys, in today's video I'm going to be showing you how to use the enhanced input mappings system in Unreal Engine 5.1 to create character movement.
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00:00 - Intro
00:23 - Overview
00:44 - Creating The Inputs
05:57 - Creating The Player Character
08:16 - Using The Input Mappings
10:20 - Jumping Input
10:58 - Camera Input
12:13 - Movement Input
14:52 - Creating A Game Mode
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16:20 - Outro
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[@eeshwar]

For those that want to invert the Y axis. Go to you imput mapping context (IMC_MyGame) and add a Negate modifier for IA_Look, and check it for on Y only, so uncheck X and Z.

[@ltskurge6928]

LEGEND ! this melted my mind a few times xD

[@Kenway653]

Thank You soo much for this

[@user-vf6eh1fo5u]

speaking of inverting axis, how could i do that inside the editor for my mouse movements ?

[@eeshwar]

@@user-vf6eh1fo5u for blueprints you can add a multiplier modifier and put -1. That will also invert it

[@CRobertTv]

thank you !!! i was confused for a bit but figured it out. Thanks again !

[@leeow3n]

It's oddly difficult to find tutorials that start from a mesh to playable character without hacks & workarounds

[@JesseTheGameDev]

​@@_Clivey "Without hacks or workarounds"

[@tylercathey8848]

@@JesseTheGameDev wtf does that even mean

[@Grant6243]

For anyone using a First Person camera and the camera is inverted on the Y axis, I had to add a Negate to my look action and negate ONLY the y value.

[@Lord_Thunderballs]

Having same issue with 3rd person camera.

[@AriesTheSoulReaper]

Thank you!

[@A14HR]

This comment saved me, thanks

[@kok8346]

Thank you mate!

[@tobiassteffes9627]

Thanks Bro!

[@yojan69]

I'm coming from around 1 year of using Unity, and this is my first time and blueprint in Unreal Engine and I'm simply amazed on how fast getting a working character controller is here, instead of coding a whole function just to rotate the character in the direction of the camera, I just put a node and thats it, so far I'm really in love with Unreal

[@brainrotw]

:D

[@alzahelb6053]

switched years ago and never turned back. Unreal is so much better than Unity (personal opinion)

[@yojan69]

@@alzahelb6053 I haven't quite used it for a game yet, but I just love how easy it is most of the times, I love the new quality of life I have on Unreal, I don't need 3 workarounds to get rid of a random Unity console error message which won't go away or anything similar, I once saw someone saying "the difference between Unreal and Unity is that the creators of Unreal actually use it, while Unity only adds features without testing", and that's kinda real, I just won't look back at Unity ever again

[@_Irrelevant]

Your videos are so easy to follow and use! You really remove the headache from learning a new engine.

[@HugoCortell]

Finally, a video that actually explains how to do this! I have watched four separate tutorials and each and every one of them either skipped over critical information (such as how to make an action map or how to control a camera with it), or used C++ instead of blueprints.

[@Seancstudiogames]

This is the only video that does the entire process of setting up the Enhanced Input with none of the example project content. Thank you! This video got my character controls working.

[@dyneamyte]

Thank you for this clear explanation. Although i didn't know how the old system worked, I feel pretty confident in going ahead and exploring from here. would be great to have a video covering movement modes, like changing from walking to flying, etc. Thanks once again

[@hashimshah7732]

I've seen a lots of videos on this topic and as expected this one is no exception

[@LeoGargoyle]

I find this new controller input much less tedious and more flexible than the old one, which I have experience with. I honestly enjoy the new way of doing it, and you're video was very helpful!

[@cronopoly344]

Prior to your video this was way more confusing to understand than necessary even by the Unreal documentation. You made it clear. Thanks ALOT. subbed

[@chakubb]

Hi. Some really good comments here and very justified. I have been undergoing some learnings of UE5 and recently started a new project attempting get up and running with less assistance; Of course I came across some snags and have been filtering through my notes and other content. However, Your video saved me! So clear, so precise and to the point; Bravo, truly 👏and Thank you. You earned yourself a new subscriber :)

[@jayhop960]

Matt i dont know if youll see this but you are the man Matt i appreciate your help youre making so many peoples projects easier and better and taking stress off of us thanks for the help man much appreciated

[@mayo9793]

This was really helpful, It feels like a completely new engine in a good way, haven't touched unreal since 4.7

[@CloudProductions]

I've used this video dozens of times. Excellent tutorial.

[@MattAspland]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tobiassteffes9627]

Thank you really much! Maybe you could do a part two, where you do some advanced mechanics like, walking on ice, double jump, wall run and other mechanics used in common games?

[@anthonyapm]

Finally a tutorial that shows things from scratch!

[@BP-kc3dj]

You rock! I first had a problem because I thought i was going to have to blend your old video with this one to get the free camera. Watched again. You are awsome! Thanks so much for doing this video!!!

[@MattAspland]

Glad I could help!

[@alpharslan]

You're the savior angel of Unreal Engine community, Matt. Great work, cheers.

[@EliasElliot]

Thank you so much. I have been searching for the thing that I was dong wrong, and you fixed it! You are awesome!

[@evaisotalo3386]

Thank you ever so much for creating and sharing this tutorial it helped me to understand the new ways. 🙂

[@BtheBLmao]

this was actually really helpful thank you matt

[@Anthrothia]

Appreciate this video. knew most of it, but hadn't done it in a while and you pointed out a few things I didn't remember (or I didn't know to begin with lol)

[@skyreep1]

Perfect timing for this one! Thanks

[@wesleywinchester1890]

I was wondering if you could do the motion trajectory and pose search plugin because I don't know how they work. I believe these are very useful for character animation movement.

[@Furiac.]

Maybe I was just used to it but the old system felt a lot more straightforward. However this one does seem to save time, and it was always weird how mappings were in project settings instead of some blueprint like how it is now.

[@FPChris]

Perfect. So many tutorials try to do too much. I don't need to program a game yet. I need the foundational building blocks.

[@Alucard_Seven]

what i was looking for. Your a legend Dude Cheers!

[@GregX999]

This video was super helpful!! Thanks so much!

[@dork8966]

I've liked and subscribed on all of my accounts now, that's how useful this was to me, thank you so much!!

[@christopherlegg5469]

Awesome video, thanks for the help, I have been scratching my head on why I was always going right lol

[@f4vi]

Thanks Matt! have great 2023

[@MattAspland]

Same to you!

[@thegamingzonkey7036]

Great vid super helpful and wasnt confusing

[@Algyr_]

This was so useful, thank you

[@Classymarc]

Nice, fast and easy, well done!

[@huyduong8946]

Very valuable video, thank you soo much!

[@olegklaus]

Thank you very much, finally a tutorial that works from the first try. Great job!

[@MattAspland]

Great to hear!

[@cristobalink2413]

very nice tutorial man

[@ksaw3212]

Thank you so much!!! This system is really convoluted and bad, but you've explained it so nicely!

[@mbenson501]

Thanks So much!

[@schmutz06]

Top tutorial, thanks.

[@starkravingmad31]

Good vid. Thanks for explaining the new system clearly and concisely. One issue I'm having with the new system is how to cleanly make the character move faster in a given direction (i.e. FPS run faster forward than strafe and backpedal), specifically with gamepad inputs. I can limit AS and D with scalars in the IMC, though this does cause diagonal reverse movement to speed up, but I haven't found any good solution for thumbstick axes on gamepad.

[@katiekaliber]

Ty dude, this helped a lot

[@kirillb5948]

This chanel is Gold, man!

[@novaria]

i rly don't know who at epic thought "yeah, this is all really intuitive let's ship it as is!". Even knowing how things are wired up the BP code is anything but easily readable. Just look at the IA_Move setup.

[@kep-pj5go]

thank, this totorial is helpful!

[@DrPretzelMan]

thanks you so much for this! =D

[@asafa2847]

Great tutorial. Thnx alot!

[@MattAspland]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ThomasLucas-hd5yv]

Thanks this helped alot

[@Mister_L_]

Thank you, very very much dude!

[@mist_nc]

Thank you very much sir!

[@Diesermarius]

Thanks!

[@swinny_]

thanks so much for this so many tuts on EPI tell you how to add a bool but dont explain movement, really you are awesome and need more subs, thanks man

[@MattAspland]

Thanks for your support!

[@alexkerasidis]

Yes! Did you make this because of my recent comment? Either way, thank you for this!

[@MattAspland]

I sure did - thanks for the suggestion!

[@alexkerasidis]

@@MattAspland No problem, my friend! Thanks for the tutorials!

[@Makamakazi]

It feels like an Epic employee got drunk before updating UE5

[@tushartanwar4943]

Hi great tutorial, I have a question is there a way I can inverse y axis in camera movement. I tried adding negate float to y axis but Y axis camera movement stopped working in game mode.

[@danielosborn8916]

Thank You!

[@TreanYT]

Thanks❤

[@hervus2]

Great! Thanks a lot... Just one question: is it working like a charm with 5.2?

[@twintek1099]

How would one add sprinting to this? I made a multiplier but idk where i would put it to increase the speed.

Damn... there's no way i would've figured it out by myself, ever. I just started learning Unreal, but this made me think if i ever going to be able to make anything at all

[@INTs]

weak minded my friend

[@theusopppirates2865]

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it. Hang in there man

[@ThePsda2]

Hey Matt ty for the video it's awseome as always ! I have a little question and i was wondering if u could help me. I added this character movement to an other project who already use another type of movement. I can switch between both without any problems the only thing is when i use the TPS movement i see my mouse cursor and its block my camera movement when the cursor reach a border of the window. Do you have any idea of to fix it ?

[@ufuk7782]

Hello, it is a really good tutorial i understand perfectly thanks for it but i have a rotation problem with my camera movement which is when i try to make my camera move up it go down or opposite. Do you have any solition for it. Thanks in advance .

[@neurologix_music]

I don't know if this is a UE5.4 specific issue or something, because I've followed the steps perfectly, but my mouse needs to move a certain speed for the camera panning to kick in. This hasn't happened on the 3rd person template project with UE5.4 though. The project template that I'm using is actually the Simulation template project, so it could be that. Any help would be appreciated.

[@maziarghorbani]

Thank you.

[@sagefairsoft]

Hey great video, I just had one problem where I can only look left and right but not up and down? I'm pretty certain I copied the blueprints and inputs to the T, and both the pitch and yaw function inputs are linked to Y and X, what could be wrong? Edit: I figured it out, I had to check the 'use pawn control rotation' in the camera component in viewport.

[@cliff-fh6zn]

Perfect for me

[@DAGON992]

Hey this method work wrong if I'll press A and D at same time or W and S. Unreal read just last input value in the list, do you know some solution how to get 0 input value when user press opposite keys? Thank you.

[@krislaplantealt6586]

Wondering why we are using an actor instead of pawn for this? For player controlled isn't it better for it to be pawn?

[@Auticusx]

How are you getting the look to just work? Whenever I do this I have to hold a mouse button down to get it to register the mouse is moving... and if the mouse button isn't held down it ignores my input.

[@tastysnak]

At 9:00 In the event graph, off event Begin Play, you did a Get Controller cast to PlayerController. What is the difference between that and simply using a Get Player Controller node?

[@zonespace2855]

as far as I know it has to do with scaling for multiplayer, since GetController gets the current player on the current pawn, while GetPlayerController gets the first connected (local) player, which isn't necessarily the right one in MP.

[@tastysnak]

@@zonespace2855 Thanks for the reply and letting me know. I haven't built any multiplayer games so far and imagine the complexity can really scale up. It's good to know why certain nodes are being used, as opposed to simply learning what nodes are used.

[@user-lg7td1he3s]

thanks this is a good starting point for a 3rd person but i want to make a fps so can you make a tutorial just like this but for a first person not 3rd person?

[@brick343X]

I have a question; what if I just wanted the character to just turn in place? Like tank ctrols where "A" and "D" rotate the character in place and won't advance or back up unless that button is pressed. (I.E "W" and "S")

[@Warfalcon]

Does this same process work for mouse movement with leftMouse for a top down game (outside using keyboard commands for IA)? New to UE

[@user-vf6eh1fo5u]

could you set the input binding to a UI element ? kind of like a virtual button ?

[@alexstewartallred]

Can you further explain when you would use Triggered versus Started, Ongoing, Completed, etc?

[@Athasin]

I suggest hooking up print strings named after each output to each of them and then just press a button so you can see for yourself when exactly each goes off. It's really informative.

[@therealkevinleee]

Double middle click to make a new point on the blueprint line then hold alt and left click to move it

[@biswajittripathy2786]

Can I take IA_Crouch and add value type Axis2D for crouching and in IMC, I can add modifier like Swizzle input axis values

[@rozt107]

Where did you get that skeletal mesh TutorialTPP? did you add it to your project? Or is it supposed to be default? I turned on starter content but i don't have it, and it's not first tutorial i see using exactly that skeletal mesh which i don't have

[@polyvector3d]

I made a comment that details how to do exactly this. Not sure how to link it exactly, but it's the one after yours.

[@rozt107]

@@polyvector3d Thank you a lot!

[@swinny_]

thanks bro

[@user-bz5mo1ye8w]

If your character is moving forward even while pressing S key, just add a negate modifier after the swizzle modifier to S key.

[@loganstewart6133]

Hey question. My scene goes into free camera when I start. Why doesn't it go to the character instead? have everything set up but it still doesn't register the character class. Is there something I missed?

[@Oo-tn9xg]

How can I have the cahracter walk when I push the left thumbstick only half way and then run when it's all the way pushed? With no additional keypresses just purely the amount of push on the thumbstick. Need RP walk.

[@chickishot8172]

Great tutorial. Matt or if anyone else knows is there a way to use the Gamepad for menus to to move to different buttons and click on them like many games do? All the tutorials I’ve seen only do the mouse which seems to be incompatible with Gamepad. The only tutorial I saw that did do something like this used a third person plugin called Gamepad UMG. I don’t want to use another plugin because the last plugin I used permanently made my project unable to package even after I removed it. I don’t want to go through that hell again…

[@davidmohlen6753]

Try the CommonUI plugin, its built into the editor and offers native gamepad support in widgets

[@AlGny2]

heres an interesting Question why do we need to set up input action ,if we can just get the keyboard event node with the selected button ?

[@Morwag_Scrums]

Ok got it to work kind of.... but I want first person view and with this setup when I move my mouse its moving the camera all over the place..... Its not fixed.... What is going on or how do I fix that?

[@bigsky7617]

Not exactly related to this video, but what happened in 5.2 that there are no axis value nodes, like Get MoveForward? I'm trying to migrate a project from 5.1.1 to 5.2.1 and those nodes aren't there...

[@EnigmaMan88]

When following the steps to add the jump button at 3:10. On yours, the IA_Jump, appears on the top drop down, but on mine when I try and add it, it stays blank. I don't understand, why that is happening.

[@cypher-robinson]

when I get to the 2:56 mark, I cannot click on "mappings" becuase it says "cannot add an action mapping while an empty mapping exists" -- I also don't have an ENGINE folder in my content drawer as seen in the vid.

[@aaronmaguire2867]

i did somethings different thinking it wouldnt really matter but now i think i messed up. i used the 3rd person character blueprint isntead of making my own and deleted all the things in there. i then followed your guide all the way through, made all the functions and set it all up exactly like this guide said but my character will not move and neither will the camera. anyway to fix this???

[@mohamedabelaziz6239]

How to controle the speed of movements ? thanks for the tut

[@Ondra88]

Hi, how can I reduce the speed or sensitivity of the camera controls?

[@BoomTuberSixtySix]

Why is my camera's Y axis inverted? I fixed (hopefully correctly) by multiplying by -1 before plugging IA_Look into the add controller pitch input y socket but then my Xbox controller right thumbstick is inverted.

[@MartKart8]

I sent an email, and I feel silly now, because I think I solved it, it's a weird issue, it involved gliding, I created a sequence after the Set speed node in the Event Graph, I've noticed several of my animations, needed to be connected to this node so the animation worked. I noticed in your videos when you wanted a new animation for your third person character you would always connect after the BlendSpace 1D.

[@cesarsarmientojr.5269]

Hi Matt How do you add sound to the jump without it sounding every time you press spacebar? I tried adding the sound to the jump animation but it didn't play. Then tried adding it to the EnhancedInputActionIA_Jump> branch/isJumping>setisJumping(True)>playsound2d>jump but i cant get it to jump again.

[@cesarsarmientojr.5269]

Never mind. I had to shift over the play sound sound notify on the jump animation timeline for it to work. Great tutorial as always thanks Matt!

[@richrodriguez9261]

For setting up the Movement Input, why wouldn't we plug anything into the target function Get Control Rotation? I'm getting an error when I try and compile the Blueprint: This blueprint (self) is not a Controller, therefore ' Target ' must have a connection. It seemed to work in your case though? DO you have any thoughts on what I may have done wrong?

[@keesvandervalk9552]

The function Get Control Rotation should be the one for the pawn. You have choosen the one for "Target is Controller" like i did first.

[@CRUMVIII]

Is there a way of having a button do two different things without them conflicting? Like for example tapping the button causes you to attack. But, holding the button would cause you to do a charge attack instead? Cos I've tried a few things and they don't like each other so far.

[@Laudplays]

Check how long the button has been held for. I'm not a pro but here's how I'd do it. Create TWO Boolean variables, 'FullCharge' and 'SemiCharge' and THREE Float variables which we'll call, 'ChargeTime', 'MinCharge' and 'MaxCharge'. 'ChargeTime' is how long the button was held for. We'll say 'MinCharge' is the least amount of time the button should be held to be considered a charged attack, let's say it's 0.5 seconds. 'MaxCharge' is exactly what it says it is, and we'll set it to 2 seconds. When the button is pressed, the only thing it'll do is start counting up and adding to 'ChargeTime'. If 'ChargeTime' is greater than or equal to whatever you set 'MaxCharge' to be, set the 'FullCharge' boolean to true. If it was held longer than 'MinCharge' but less than the 'MaxCharge' time, set 'SemiCharge' to true. If neither are true, do nothing. When the button is released, it'll do a few things. It'll check if the 'FullCharge' boolean is true. If it is true, it'll do a fully charged attack. If it's not true, it'll do another check to see if 'SemiCharge' is true. If neither are true, do a normal attack and then reset all booleans to false and 'ChargeTime' to 0.

[@chickishot8172]

I don’t know about charging but I have many buttons that do very different things with the same button. The key is making sure they are different types of abilities where you can set conditions. Like for instance my character if he is near a wall he can vault over he will vault, if he is falling near a wall he can climb, if he isn’t near a wall he can equip his sword, and if he swimming near a wall he can vault he will vault to climb out of the water. I accomplished these through booleans connected to the “if” (also called branch) node and multiple line traces. You can also use the “is valid ?” to validate if there is an enemy near by and they are low health then do a finisher move if not then do a dash instead. I know it’s confusing but I hope that helps clear it up for you.

[@aleca8910]

Yes, any input action has a trigger list. Think about triggers like "ways" to activate the behavior. You can have a release (key/mouse/button up) trigger for attack and a press and hold trigger for the charge. You can read the hold time in your delegated function.

[@DaivaDarpana]

Many people use nod system to program and you have to choose at start (before installing the engine) which way you prefer - nod or C++. My question is: if I choose nod, will I lose an access to C++? And can I mix nods with C++?

[@marcapouli7805]

You can begin your project with node, and convert it later to c++, and will be able to mix both

[@Whiterose-Mask]

Thanks a lot! I just discovered that there is a new input system and every other video is basicly shows it but doesnt show how to implement it to movement. Also i been looking for a video where i can add armors/clothes to a character without merging the armor and character into a single mesh. I've seen people cutting the modelts to parts and then adding each part the armor which didint felt right to me. If you have knowledge about this topic would you be down to make a tutorial about it? Thanks a lot again!

[@jonathonhagedorn8744]

Would sockets be efficient? Or possibly the variant (component? system?)

[@theshaderpilgrim6151]

Your tutorial is very cool ! Sometime you speak quickly for a non-english talker... but many thanks for all theses informations :)