Character Controller

Players and walking NPCs do not use a plain rigid body. They use a character controller, a capsule that climbs steps, slides along walls, and never tips over. It is three components on one entity.

Component	Role
Character Physics	The collision capsule (Radius, Half Height) and how it handles slopes, steps, and pushing dynamic bodies.
Character Movement	The feel, including speed, acceleration, jump, gravity, air control, rotation.
Character Controller	The intent layer your script talks to.

Add all three in the Details panel to make an entity a character.

Movement tuning

On Character Movement you shape how it feels, with Move Speed, Acceleration and Deceleration, Jump Speed, Max Jump Count (set 2 for a double jump), Air Control, Ground Friction, Gravity, and Rotation Rate. Orient Rotation To Movement turns the character to face the way it’s moving; Use Controller Rotation instead matches the controller’s look direction. It also reports read-only Grounded and Velocity.

How it handles terrain is set on Character Physics with Max Slope Angle (the steepest walkable incline) and Step Height (the tallest ledge it climbs automatically), plus the capsule’s Radius, Half Height, and Mass.

Driving it from a script

Talk to the Character Controller, not the transform. Feed it intent each frame and the movement system resolves it on the physics step.

SCharacterControllerComponent Controller = Registry.Get<SCharacterControllerComponent>(Entity);
Controller.AddMovementInput(Direction);   // accumulate a world-space move direction
Controller.AddYaw(Turn);                   // look left/right (degrees)
Controller.Jump();                         // jump this frame

Method	Does
`AddMovementInput(FVector3)`	Accumulate a world-space move direction for this frame.
`AddYaw(float)` / `AddPitch(float)`	Turn the look direction (degrees; pitch is clamped).
`AddLookInput(FVector2)`	Yaw + pitch together (x = yaw, y = pitch).
`GetLookForward()` / `GetLookRight()`	The controller’s look axes, for building a move vector.
`Jump()`	Request a jump this frame.
`Launch(velocity, overrideHorizontal, overrideVertical)`	A velocity impulse for jump pads, knockback, or dashes.
`TeleportTo(location)`	Move the character (for respawns).