Unreal Engine Physics Essentials

Scripting movement behaviors

Before we can have our vehicle move through various player controls, we need to script the blueprint behaviors in BP_NewVehicle Event Graph by taking advantage of the VehicleMovement (Inherited) Component variable. To start with, let's navigate to Content Browser and to our VehicleContent folder so that we can double-click and open BP_NewVehicle.

In an empty area of Event Graph, let's right-click and use the context-sensitive drop-down menu to search for our Input Axis MoveForward event node so that we can control the forward and backward throttle of our vehicle. Next, we need to grab a Get variable of the VehicleMovement (Inherited) component. To do this, we have to hold down the CTRL key and then click and drag the ...