Input and Collision

This chapter covers recipes surrounding game control input (keyboard, mouse, and gamepad), and collisions with obstacles.

The following recipes will be covered in this chapter:

• Axis Mappings – keyboard, mouse, and gamepad directional input for an FPS character
• Axis Mappings – normalized input
• Action Mappings – one-button responses for an FPS character
• Adding Axis and Action Mappings from C++
• Mouse UI input handling
• UMG keyboard UI shortcut keys
• Collision – letting objects pass through one another using Ignore
• Collision – picking up objects using Overlap
• Collision – preventing interpenetration using Block