Enable Input

[Daria_Bogomolova]

Is there any difference between APawn::EnableInput and APlayerController::EnableInput? Their descriptions in UE documentation are quite similar, so why do we call GetPawn() inside the APlayerController class?

[DanM]

They do the exact same thing.

APlayerController:

void APlayerController::EnableInput(class APlayerController* PlayerController)
{
	if (PlayerController == this || PlayerController == NULL)
	{
		bInputEnabled = true;
	}
	else
	{
		UE_LOG(LogPlayerController, Error, TEXT("EnableInput can only be specified on a PlayerController for itself"));
	}
}

APawn:

void APawn::EnableInput(class APlayerController* PlayerController)
{
	if (PlayerController == Controller || PlayerController == nullptr)
	{
		bInputEnabled = true;
	}
	else
	{
		UE_LOG(LogPawn, Error, TEXT("EnableInput can only be specified on a Pawn for its Controller"));
	}
}

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So within the PlayerController class you could just write

EnableInput(this);

[Daria_Bogomolova]

I’ve tried to write just

EnableInput(this);

but it didn’t work. I suppose it depends on input binding. As we binded input to the Tank (Pawn), we can enable or disable it only there.

Thank You for the answer!