Toggle Between First And Third Person Camera Perspective In Game - Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial

Hey guys, in today's Unreal Engine 4 tutorial, I'm going to be showing you how to toggle between the third person (TPP) and first person (FPP) camera perspectives in your game, with a key press.
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[@MattAspland]

If you want to make a smooth transition animation for going from third to first person, watch this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYiYaphniKqpjdE

[@dolphin2165]

Even when I had issues I just look at some of the comments with the same issue and you helped me and them fix it. Legend.

[@KelvinYankey]

When you were jumping in first person. That looked so sick. Thanks for the great tutorial man. Keep up the good work

[@Vazz]

Thanks for the quick and easy to follow tutorial. Just what I needed. I did have an issue where it would start in the first person view but the camera acted like the third person cam where I can spin around and see my face but I seemed to have fixed that by going into the detail panel for the cameras and unchecking "auto activate" for the fps cam and keeping it checked on the third person one. If you have any tutorial examples for dialogue trees or like a simple fetch quest, I'd love to see them.

[@MattAspland]

Thank you, happy it helped! And I haven't seen that issue before, glad you solved it though, well done. I'll also look into doing those, thanks for the good ideas, I'll give them a go.

[@elf234]

I had the same issue however used your method to fix, it does set the starting camera to 3rd person by default even with "B" from the flip flob going to "set active" at the top. Would you know how to fix this?

[@understanddan]

Had the same issue thanks that fixed it. How did you prevent the first person character from turning around while allowing the third person to do so still?

[@bryanvolckaert7132]

You my man are a legend thank you!

[@savior1297]

Vazz you are a life saver! thank you! I was concerned because i followed the steps but i had the same issue, goes to show the little details can affect a lot

[@GravityPollution]

Great little video. This is exactly what I was looking for. Keep it up!

[@MattAspland]

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[@capblackbeard2438]

Thanks man. I have been looking for a video like this for a long time to get an aim for a third person shooter.

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Matt, thank you so much for your hard work! It helps us out so much!

[@jobisgame]

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[@luiskabal1595]

This is the first thing I'm doing in UE5, beautiful tutorial, THANKS!

[@studiobaxter1242]

Brilliant, thank you, just what I needed to know this morning. Subscribed.

[@minhkhatran6537]

Great Tutorial, keep up the incredible work!

[@Skeltcher]

Great tutorial! Thanks!

[@schmutz06]

Excellent tutorial and pace and explanations. Really grateful thanks.

[@skinnylizardstudios]

This is brilliant. Thank you Matt

[@sergiistychynskyi3959]

Extremely helpful! Thanks!

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[@MattAspland]

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[@NOLA_playmaker]

Awesome works man. Very easy to learn. I'm trying to unpack some game files to make a first person camera for a third person game. Hopefully I can follow this to do that.

[@ScottDeascentis]

Great video! Your speaking voice and style are great!

[@MattAspland]

Wow thank you! That means a lot :D

[@RmaNYouTube]

Thanks, This was the easiest tutorial on the internet, because of not having to deal with strange issues such as camera showing inside the body and whatnot.

[@linyafernandez3444]

Thank you for the simple amazing tutorial!

[@classicalpositioning957]

The flip flop set active bit helped me fix a problem I was having not being able to change over from firs to third I got from another video. Thanks.

[@MattAspland]

No problem, glad you got it fixed :)

[@Athasin]

Thank you so much for this!!

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[@Emblanefilms]

Another brilliant informative succinct video. Thank you sir.

[@GorblinRat]

Amazing!

[@thabudmaster]

super helpful thanks!

[@manim.documentation5334]

Easy to follow , straight to point

[@MattAspland]

Thank you man, glad it was helpful :)

[@inspiredexpired9137]

Great Tutorial only a few I have found on youtube that actually work and this one works just fine for getting started with a viewports. THANKS subbed!

[@mattweber24]

This is fantastic! Thanks

[@admiralevan]

Thanks for the tip! I love having the option to switch between them when building projects to get a closer look at assets. I'm going to also add a zoom in the first person camera controlled by the scroll wheel to really get a nice look ahha

[@schmutz06]

that's next on my to do - and like you I also wanted this toggle for development work. If you can recommend a tutorial for that I'll take it!

[@mariangelicagiloviedo3341]

Thanks!! it worked good!

[@Kats9tails]

thank you for this very valuable info! I was able to do it easily

[@somerndmguy5715]

You are an absolute life saver, thank you so much dude!

[@MattAspland]

No problem, glad I could help you :D

[@maltar5210]

very nice, thanks! :)

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[@GaryParkin]

Thank you for the video. I was messing with this and just moved the camera from its original position to near the head, but I can still see the head once in a while. This should fix my issue. :)

[@MattAspland]

No problem, happy I could help you :)

[@Auti3D]

Thanks Matt Aspland, using this to toggle between shoulder cam views!

[@mr.v9474]

Nice thank you for your guidance much appreciated

[@elf234]

Video helped a lot thank you very much :)

[@MattAspland]

No problem, glad it helped you!

[@DigitalLoom]

great tutorial i appreciate the help!!! for those who cant get what they are looking for with these specific settings just uncheck and play with some of the options intel it works your way!!! im making a racing game and i had to uncheck use pawn control rotation and i also had to uncheck the new active and stuff like that ! just play with it and it will work!!! once again thank you i have been trying to figure this tuff out!!!

[@MattAspland]

That's great to hear, thanks for sharing what worked for you so others can be helped by it too!

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[@artdrawing6682]

This is cool 😎

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Thanks great explenation to!

[@MattAspland]

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[@ShawnPowerz]

great just a great tutorial.

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Thx!!

[@Darkfredor]

Merci beaucoup,super tuto.

[@MattAspland]

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[@MattAspland]

Always a pleasure to help out!! :)

[@chirag5517]

Thanks Bro

[@akshatsharma6304]

Great Tutorial. Is there anyway to do this with axis input instead of an action input

[@caprog1581]

TYSM

[@LeetardPlays]

Love you

[@soycat]

Thank you so much for the tutorial, it works perfectly! Do you know by any chance if it's possible to use the collision with a Box Trigger placed in the 'ThirdPersonExampleMap' as impulse for the camera to toggle from Third Person to First Person?

[@MattAspland]

No problem, glad you found it helpful. And absolutely, you’d get a reference to the box trigger inside of the third person character, and get an Event BeginOverlap, and then do the same you did previously, so set active camera third person to true, and set active camera, first person to false or the other way around. So it’s essentially the same code as before, just with a begin overlap event instead of the ‘V’ key. Hope it works and let me know if you need extra help, like a video explaining it better

[@soycat]

@@MattAspland Thanks for your answer :) I'm kinda new to unreal and I tried to make a reference to the box trigger but somehow it didn't work :( if you have the time to explain the steps to do it I'd be very grateful!

[@MattAspland]

Sure, no problem, always happy to help :D if you have the box trigger selected in your level, and then go back to your third person character, if you then right click and search for event begin overlap, you should hopefully see it, if you do click it, if not let me know and I’ll make a video on it explaining it better. Also if you want to change the camera back when you leave the box trigger, get an event endoverlap, and do the same thing as before, but just obviously swap around the cameras

[@soycat]

@@MattAspland ahhh, now I finally got it right! Thank you soo much for your help :D sometimes things are easier than you think and I was thinking way too complicated :D

[@MattAspland]

Glad you solved it :D and no problem. I get what you mean, you expect it to be complicated but it's not at all lol

[@TacticalGamingNetwork]

Do you know how to do this with transition to first person mesh that has the arms and gun in hand and such?

[@burnknucklesbot7509]

I m finding this from 1month and today I got the tutorial of that ❤

[@MattAspland]

That's great to hear! Glad you've got it now :)

[@seanchua8623]

Thanks a bunch for the tutorial! I'm a newbie to UE and I'm trying to do the Box Trigger camera toggle from First to Third person. But I don't seem to understand how it works.. for some reason my Third Person camera stays in place when I trigger the Box Trigger but for First Person it toggles smoothly. Hope it doesn't cause you too much trouble if you could make a video on Box Trigger camera toggle as I couldn't find the solution anywhere :(

[@monkiplasmi]

can this be done in the first person shooter template? but changing the model to the full manekin and showing it only when the TPP_Camera is active?

[@davidquee8728]

So I have built out almost a complete platformer on all of your information lol I implemented this tonight now I am hoping that you can put out a video on how to force third-person when an emote is active. thank you

[@EmanuelAxelsson]

Awesome Tut! Question: How can I limit the head movement? because now I can 360 with my head.

[@MattAspland]

Thanks! You can use clamps to limit the float that the camera can rotate to. It's quite a lengthy section of code, but this thread has a good image, let me know if you need a hang! :) answers.unrealengine.com/questions/35476/view.html

[@charles8111]

i followed your steps and got it working like you did but for some reason when i start my test play if i hit (E) it changes my view to a orbital like action where my camera rotates with my mouse but in front of my persons face this only happens at the start of the run though if i hit (V) it corrects it and smoothly transitions between the fp and tp views. Is there a way to not get this issue to happen at the start is what im wondering

[@rofliktv]

Nice tutorial. I did everything what you say, but in FPP camera I cant tunrn my head down only to left and right. I got UE 4.25.1

[@Xegethra]

How would I do this for more than two camera angles? I have about 4 angles in mind and I'm not sure how to fit that too the flip flop system. If I need another one then I don't know which one.

[@dylanking165]

coming from unity as a noob where i tried and failed to set this up for days even with a ton of tutorials to this where i got it and more in 5 minutes is insane

[@edjonhadley1]

I've done everything in the video, but when i go first person and turn around with my mouse, i can see inside my characters body meaning that it's like the camera isn't connected to the mesh fully.

[@worscohli]

id u parent the socket to the head like he did before he moved the camera?

[@RockG.o.d]

same happened to me, not sure why, so I went to the third person character blueprint where you added the camera, then under add component, you will see thirdpersoncharacter(self) click that, then in the details panel, scroll down and under the heading pawn, you will see use controller rotation, tick that, and all will be resolved.

[@Carlos_Lennon]

@@RockG.o.d did not work

[@EDTisme]

@@Carlos_Lennon Did you ever solve the issue? Mine does the same, but if i switch to third person then back to first it works perfectly

[@Mark-ry1lw]

@@RockG.o.d OMG this is what i was looking for exactly. I was looking at some crazy BP but this did the trick....

[@weeb_trassh52]

Great turorial however im having an issue that when I'm stood still in FP and rotate the camera 180 I can see the player. any fixes?

[@ToadMagic]

Hey! The tutorial worked great, but I want the player to be able to see themselves in 3rd person, but not in 1st person. Any idea how this can be achieved? I figured out how to disable seeing the character completely for the owner of the character, but I need them to be able to see themselves in tpp but not fpp. Thanks.

[@azimpetra]

I'm assuming this is the same if I wanted to add more perspective, like birds eye(rts style). But how do i make it so you can choose to either follow where the character is facing, WASD W = move forwards /vs/ camera locked to north, so that WASD, W = move up.

[@FACforda]

when I click f5 which is what I used it shows a green screen with some things down, what should I do

[@adhnanmusthafa1465]

You should make games dude you will be a millionaire one day By the way you are EPIC thank you for teaching me that

[@InterplanetarySound]

Is there a way to get the camera to follow the head during a flip? Great Video!

[@burithemage]

Thank you for the Video! It helped me a lot. But when I switch to FP my Camera control for looking up and down inverts.

[@MattAspland]

No problem, happy to help! I'm not sure why it would be inverted. Although to put it back, off of your "InputAxis LookUp" you could get a branch, and have the condition as a Boolean of "IsFirstPerson" which you can set to true when you enter first person, and false when you enter third person. Then off of true and false for this branch go into an "Add Controller Pitch Input". The value for these will be a "Float*Float" with the top float as the "Axis Value" from the "InputAxis". Then for the one off true, the bottom float will be 1 and the false it will be -1, or if this doesn't work, then it will be the other way around. Hope this helps and fixes the issue :)

[@EMNM66]

Hey, is there a way to record the camera on first person view. I want to make a video render in FPV?

[@Ally2_]

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[@MattAspland]

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[@stalp0pp]

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[@olegharput9988]

Hi! i need your help, i want a camera that follows the third person camera, so how can i disable the mouse movement (movement of the camera around the character) of the third person camera? Adding "use controller rotation raw" at the end of ThirdPersonCamera+SetActive does not stop the mouse movement of third person camera. Please help.

[@HeyShotgun]

hey man, fantastic video, but i have one minor issue, how can I get it to follow the other rotations, I am having my character already rigged with a gun and everything and i can have the gun movements in the first person but not third. got any ideas on how to get it nailed?

[@MattAspland]

Hey, can you maybe explain more what you mean? I've loaded up a first person blueprint, as it has the gun in it, and set up the camera switch, it seemed to work perfectly. I only had to add 'Set Use Controller Rotation Pitch' to true on the third person camera, and false when going back to the first person. Is this your issue?

[@Duo_Septimdra]

Ah that's simpler than what I expected, I should be able to use this to change back and forth from a top down perspective as well. Let's hope there's no hiccups

[@ericjlong2995]

Hey great work! I am using the dynamic combat system in ue4/5. My issue is that when in first person mode, i can rotate and see my face due to something happening in the dynamic combat blueprints. I am confident that i've done everything else correctly. Anybody got an idea?

[@tianbg2159]

thx

[@MattAspland]

No problem :)

[@RprtBak]

The only thing I changes was instead of the flip flop, I went from InputAction -> Branch (Condition First Person Camera is Active) - True: Same as the top. False, same as bottom. It's a lot better imo

[@j.hateshisjob5137]

great, nice and to the point. My problem though is that even if I swap the A and B I still start in third person regardless. Any idea why that is or how I could fix it?

[@akshaykapur8925]

I have the same problem

[@techno2776]

You need to set "Auto Activate" to false on the TP-Cam and true on the FP-Cam.

[@zxc801127]

@@techno2776 thank you man i read almost every comment for this answer. THX!

[@techno2776]

@@zxc801127 Thanks to you too.

[@gamekingstudios]

i added the blueprint and it works beautifully but im using an asset called motion and when i go into third person viewpoint i can still see the first person camera. is there a way i can turn that off.

[@reynaldoplays7328]

Thx so much you are the best no i can make a first and third person game

[@nanku9924]

imma little late to the party here but "use Pawn Control Rotation" isn't showing up for me? I'm pretty new to this following step by step.. not sure why this is any help would be wonderful!

[@TheRaveCrocker]

is there a way to set third person to the default?

[@Fez_Vrasta]

Hi, may you please explain how to prevent the first person camera from shaking a lot while walking?

[@anicholls]

This is happening to me too! I can't figure out how to get it to stop.

[@lordofthelair6716]

Works well but how do i set it so the head cam rotates the body once over the shoulder instead of twisting my head around like a robot owl

[@geoffrey3668]

Quick and easy! We should send the tutorial to CD PROJEKT RED.

[@3dartdesign372]

Thank u Sir its very usefull for me thanx

[@budpeetie6879]

Have a like, sir. Thanks

[@joker-jd3jd]

When the game starts I want to start with tpp angle how do I do it

[@TheJoktan]

WOW! This really is appreciated. Thank YOU sooo much.

[@c3po608]

Dude, do you have a course at udemy ?

[@triscitt]

Another thing you can do if you have clipping issues; you can hide the bone or more your camera further

[@MRTRNgaming]

How?

[@MRTRNgaming]

I have issue about the camera. It doesnt give me the distance needed for TPP. It just kind starts normal. From normal distance of 3PP , but once pressed V , the camera takes FPP and when going back to TPP, it just kind is a bit behind the head.

[@davidgread511]

On Multiplayer the V key needs to be pressed twice to work for any additional player beyond the first. Not a huge issue as it only needs to be done once per game load, but if someone has a fix for this it would be appreciated.

[@Jack_JRR]

He legit said it in the video....

[@paulpierantozzi]

It is defaulting to 3rd person at start. How can I change the camera it starts with?