S1.17 Simple movement setup

Lesson Summary

In this lesson, we covered:

How to use the tick event.
Using the Context Sensitive checkmark to our advantage.
Adding a movement input node.

What did we do?

✅ Updated for UE 5.4.1

Add movement when the move key is being pressed

Find or create the Tick Event. If you delete it, you can right click on the empty graph and type Tick.
Create an Add Movement Input node to the graph and connect it to the Tick event. Uncheck the Context Sensitive checkbox if the node doesnt appear.
Create a Get Controlled Pawn and connect it to the Target input in the Add Movement Input.

Code added in this video:

To copy the nodes in any graph, you can select them and press Ctrl + C or use the button below each graph. After copying the nodes, paste them (Ctrl + V) inside the editor's graph.

PC_MyDungeonCrawler

Begin Object Class=/Script/BlueprintGraph.K2Node_Event Name="K2Node_Event_2" ExportPath="/Script/BlueprintGraph.K2Node_Event'/Game/DungeonCrawler/Core/Player/PC_MyDungeonCrawler.PC_MyDungeonCrawler:EventGraph.K2Node_Event_2'"
   EventReference=(MemberParent="/Script/CoreUObject.Class'/Script/Engine.Actor'",MemberName="ReceiveTick")
   bOverrideFunction=True
   NodePosX=48
   NodePosY=832
   NodeGuid=C62E2B494644CE5A1C09DEA69F88DE00
   CustomProperties Pin (PinId=6F11705B4574802C7DD88FBBC94521DB,PinName="OutputDelegate",Direction="EGPD_Output",PinType.PinCategory="delegate",PinType.PinSubCategory="",PinType.PinSubCategoryObject=None,PinType.PinSubCategoryMemberReference=(MemberParent="/Script/CoreUObject.Class'/Script/Engine.Actor'",MemberName="ReceiveTick"),PinType.PinValueType=(),PinType.ContainerType=None,PinType.bIsReference=False,PinType.bIsConst=False,PinType.bIsWeakPointer=False,PinType.bIsUObjectWrapper=False,PinType.bSerializeAsSinglePrecisionFloat=False,PersistentGuid=00000000000000000000000000000000,bHidden=False,bNotConnectable=False,bDefaultValueIsReadOnly=False,bDefaultValueIsIgnored=False,bAdvancedView=False,bOrphanedPin=False,)
   CustomProperties Pin (PinId=C2F9AD3045A0E002CA37DE895F222798,PinName="then",Direction="EGPD_Output",PinType.PinCategory="exec",PinType.PinSubCategory="",PinType.PinSubCategoryObject=None,PinType.PinSubCategoryMemberReference=(),PinType.PinValueType=(),PinType.ContainerType=None,PinType.bIsReference=False,PinType.bIsConst=False,PinType.bIsWeakPointer=False,PinType.bIsUObjectWrapper=False,PinType.bSerializeAsSinglePrecisionFloat=False,LinkedTo=(K2Node_CallFunction_0 C25A3C0D40DDEE8C68AD9FB4BD3F1F49,),PersistentGuid=00000000000000000000000000000000,bHidden=False,bNotConnectable=False,bDefaultValueIsReadOnly=False,bDefaultValueIsIgnored=False,bAdvancedView=False,bOrphanedPin=False,)
   CustomProperties Pin (PinId=A55966F844090CEDE3A4BEBC58097E61,PinName="DeltaSeconds",PinToolTip="Delta Seconds\nFloat (single-precision)",Direction="EGPD_Output",PinType.PinCategory="real",PinType.PinSubCategory="float",PinType.PinSubCategoryObject=None,PinType.PinSubCategoryMemberReference=(),PinType.PinValueType=(),PinType.ContainerType=None,PinType.bIsReference=False,PinType.bIsConst=False,PinType.bIsWeakPointer=False,PinType.bIsUObjectWrapper=False,PinType.bSerializeAsSinglePrecisionFloat=False,DefaultValue="0.0",AutogeneratedDefaultValue="0.0",PersistentGuid=00000000000000000000000000000000,bHidden=False,bNotConnectable=False,bDefaultValueIsReadOnly=False,bDefaultValueIsIgnored=False,bAdvancedView=False,bOrphanedPin=False,)
End Object
Begin Object Class=/Script/BlueprintGraph.K2Node_CallFunction Name="K2Node_CallFunction_0" ExportPath="/Script/BlueprintGraph.K2Node_CallFunction'/Game/DungeonCrawler/Core/Player/PC_MyDungeonCrawler.PC_MyDungeonCrawler:EventGraph.K2Node_CallFunction_0'"
   FunctionReference=(MemberParent="/Script/CoreUObject.Class'/Script/Engine.Pawn'",MemberName="AddMovementInput")
   NodePosX=288
   NodePosY=816
   NodeGuid=D4A18D564128F2EA0D4E9BABF4FEF07B
   CustomProperties Pin (PinId=C25A3C0D40DDEE8C68AD9FB4BD3F1F49,PinName="execute",PinToolTip="\nExec",PinType.PinCategory="exec",PinType.PinSubCategory="",PinType.PinSubCategoryObject=None,PinType.PinSubCategoryMemberReference=(),PinType.PinValueType=(),PinType.ContainerType=None,PinType.bIsReference=False,PinType.bIsConst=False,PinType.bIsWeakPointer=False,PinType.bIsUObjectWrapper=False,PinType.bSerializeAsSinglePrecisionFloat=False,LinkedTo=(K2Node_Event_2 C2F9AD3045A0E002CA37DE895F222798,),PersistentGuid=00000000000000000000000000000000,bHidden=False,bNotConnectable=False,bDefaultValueIsReadOnly=False,bDefaultValueIsIgnored=False,bAdvancedView=False,bOrphanedPin=False,)
   CustomProperties Pin (PinId=D9275DBA416A67320ECF8BB2ED5B6F6D,PinName="then",PinToolTip="\nExec",Direction="EGPD_Output",PinType.PinCategory="exec",PinType.PinSubCategory="",PinType.PinSubCategoryObject=None,PinType.PinSubCategoryMemberReference=(),PinType.PinValueType=(),PinType.ContainerType=None,PinType.bIsReference=False,PinType.bIsConst=False,PinType.bIsWeakPointer=False,PinType.bIsUObjectWrapper=False,PinType.bSerializeAsSinglePrecisionFloat=False,PersistentGuid=00000000000000000000000000000000,bHidden=False,bNotConnectable=False,bDefaultValueIsReadOnly=False,bDefaultValueIsIgnored=False,bAdvancedView=False,bOrphanedPin=False,)
   CustomProperties Pin (PinId=247D5F1E42B14C5F8BA96D870E12B5C8,PinName="self",PinFriendlyName=NSLOCTEXT("K2Node", "Target", "Target"),PinToolTip="Target\nPawn Object Reference",PinType.PinCategory="object",PinType.PinSubCategory="",PinType.PinSubCategoryObject="/Script/CoreUObject.Class'/Script/Engine.Pawn'",PinType.PinSubCategoryMemberReference=(),PinType.PinValueType=(),PinType.ContainerType=None,PinType.bIsReference=False,PinType.bIsConst=False,PinType.bIsWeakPointer=False,PinType.bIsUObjectWrapper=False,PinType.bSerializeAsSinglePrecisionFloat=False,LinkedTo=(K2Node_CallFunction_1 8C9061DE4B20AA81465225B732E933BE,),PersistentGuid=00000000000000000000000000000000,bHidden=False,bNotConnectable=False,bDefaultValueIsReadOnly=False,bDefaultValueIsIgnored=False,bAdvancedView=False,bOrphanedPin=False,)
   CustomProperties Pin (PinId=D5C3EE0143EF76DC87F56C9556883028,PinName="WorldDirection",PinToolTip="World Direction\nVector\n\nDirection in world space to apply input",PinType.PinCategory="struct",PinType.PinSubCategory="",PinType.PinSubCategoryObject="/Script/CoreUObject.ScriptStruct'/Script/CoreUObject.Vector'",PinType.PinSubCategoryMemberReference=(),PinType.PinValueType=(),PinType.ContainerType=None,PinType.bIsReference=False,PinType.bIsConst=False,PinType.bIsWeakPointer=False,PinType.bIsUObjectWrapper=False,PinType.bSerializeAsSinglePrecisionFloat=False,DefaultValue="0, 0, 0",AutogeneratedDefaultValue="0, 0, 0",PersistentGuid=00000000000000000000000000000000,bHidden=False,bNotConnectable=False,bDefaultValueIsReadOnly=False,bDefaultValueIsIgnored=False,bAdvancedView=False,bOrphanedPin=False,)
   CustomProperties Pin (PinId=ABDE55A14B73279CF206F1905DB6C3F3,PinName="ScaleValue",PinToolTip="Scale Value\nFloat (single-precision)\n\nScale to apply to input. This can be used for analog input, ie a value of 0.5 applies half the normal value, while -1.0 would reverse the direction.",PinType.PinCategory="real",PinType.PinSubCategory="float",PinType.PinSubCategoryObject=None,PinType.PinSubCategoryMemberReference=(),PinType.PinValueType=(),PinType.ContainerType=None,PinType.bIsReference=False,PinType.bIsConst=False,PinType.bIsWeakPointer=False,PinType.bIsUObjectWrapper=False,PinType.bSerializeAsSinglePrecisionFloat=False,DefaultValue="1.000000",AutogeneratedDefaultValue="1.000000",PersistentGuid=00000000000000000000000000000000,bHidden=False,bNotConnectable=False,bDefaultValueIsReadOnly=False,bDefaultValueIsIgnored=False,bAdvancedView=False,bOrphanedPin=False,)
   CustomProperties Pin (PinId=7468B4D0471376207B18BBBB5D67BC10,PinName="bForce",PinToolTip="Force\nBoolean\n\nIf true always add the input, ignoring the result of IsMoveInputIgnored().",PinType.PinCategory="bool",PinType.PinSubCategory="",PinType.PinSubCategoryObject=None,PinType.PinSubCategoryMemberReference=(),PinType.PinValueType=(),PinType.ContainerType=None,PinType.bIsReference=False,PinType.bIsConst=False,PinType.bIsWeakPointer=False,PinType.bIsUObjectWrapper=False,PinType.bSerializeAsSinglePrecisionFloat=False,DefaultValue="false",AutogeneratedDefaultValue="false",PersistentGuid=00000000000000000000000000000000,bHidden=False,bNotConnectable=False,bDefaultValueIsReadOnly=False,bDefaultValueIsIgnored=False,bAdvancedView=False,bOrphanedPin=False,)
End Object
Begin Object Class=/Script/BlueprintGraph.K2Node_CallFunction Name="K2Node_CallFunction_1" ExportPath="/Script/BlueprintGraph.K2Node_CallFunction'/Game/DungeonCrawler/Core/Player/PC_MyDungeonCrawler.PC_MyDungeonCrawler:EventGraph.K2Node_CallFunction_1'"
   bIsPureFunc=True
   bIsConstFunc=True
   FunctionReference=(MemberName="K2_GetPawn",bSelfContext=True)
   NodePosX=192
   NodePosY=1072
   NodeGuid=7E91EDD94A3EF2ECBB7785AF1FD68D4D
   CustomProperties Pin (PinId=11D8BFC149F2B4DD9CD8B79241D1CD9B,PinName="self",PinFriendlyName=NSLOCTEXT("K2Node", "Target", "Target"),PinToolTip="Target\nController Object Reference",PinType.PinCategory="object",PinType.PinSubCategory="",PinType.PinSubCategoryObject="/Script/CoreUObject.Class'/Script/Engine.Controller'",PinType.PinSubCategoryMemberReference=(),PinType.PinValueType=(),PinType.ContainerType=None,PinType.bIsReference=False,PinType.bIsConst=False,PinType.bIsWeakPointer=False,PinType.bIsUObjectWrapper=False,PinType.bSerializeAsSinglePrecisionFloat=False,PersistentGuid=00000000000000000000000000000000,bHidden=False,bNotConnectable=False,bDefaultValueIsReadOnly=False,bDefaultValueIsIgnored=False,bAdvancedView=False,bOrphanedPin=False,)
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End Object

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