My Crystal Cavern player pawn isn't responding to inputs and I'm not sure why

[Samcw]

I’m on the “Adding Torque” lecture and have followed the coding instructions carefully instructions but the PC marble isn’t responding to player inputs. I’ve gone back through a few lectures to make sure I didn’t miss anything and aside from using a different version of Unreal (4.25.0) than the lecture set I think it’s all correct.

I had started on this project once before but had to stop for a long while, so I restarted this from scratch rather than pickup where I left off on the old project. I think I remember running into a similar issue back then but I was able to fix and move on then. I don’t remember what it was that I needed to do at the time. I booted up the old project to compare with, but now its PC marble also isn’t responding to inputs.

I’ve attached screenshots of the PC marble BP and the Project Settings>Input window, let me know if there’s anything else that would help identify the problem. (I know the Axis value on Torque Y is excessively high, at one point while debugging I tried adding a couple more 0s in case the scaling had changed somehow. The marble shooting off into the distance would have been enough to tell me I just had the numbers too low somehow).

[Tuomo_T]

I can’t tell from the screenshots provided but is the static mesh set to simulate physics?

[Samcw]

Thanks for replying! I think it is, Simulate Physics is set to True. Here’s a screenshot:

[Tuomo_T]

Ok, what are the collision settings?

[Samcw]

Here’s a screenshot of the PC Marble BP scrolled down to collision and that section expanded:

I haven’t made any changes to it, so it should all be the defaults.

[Tuomo_T]

Ok, just to make sure. When you press play, have you tried clicking on the viewport for your game before attempting to move?

[Samcw]

That was the problem, it looks like it’s working now! Thanks!

[Tuomo_T]

Awesome! Sometimes the viewport isn’t given focus when you press play.