To do that go up to “edit” >” Project Settings” and find “Engine” click on Input and there are 2 mapping options “Action Mapping”, and “Axis Mapping”, Axis Mapping will be used for moving left and right, There will be one Axis Mapping and one Action mapping, remember this is basic and you can add more stuff to your character. In order to create an Enumeration blueprint right-click go to the “Blueprints” and click “Enumeration.” The next thing to do is creating the enumeration for use in the set flipbooks function later, after that we need to create the inputs for the player. Enumerations will be used to store the state of the player and will be helpful for setting up the set flipbook function later on. Next, Enumeration States and getting the character movement and inputs set up. Do this for the rest of the sprites for jumping and the death sprites. Let’s start with the walking animations, find the respective sprites and control click to select them, then right click one of them and the “Create Flipbook” Option. If you are using animations from the animation frames are numbered for example, if there are 2 frames for the walking animation it the name will be “Assetname_walk_0” so on and so forth. I will call mine “EGA player_character.” Now that it has been created we can create the animations for the player character. I forgot to mention that before we begin the character blueprint should be created, right click click blueprint class, there is an all classes dropdown button click that button and type in “Paper Character.” Select that option and give the blueprint a name. For now let's focus on the animations themselves. After that if the sprites are not selected use the control and a key to select all the pictures again right click and find sprite actions and click “Extract Sprites.” Next, is the fun part creating animations, and starting to set-up the characters animation states. I normally create folders for the characters assets, animations and enumeration state, so import the sprites and when you do select all of them using “Ctrl” + “A” to select all of the sprites and right click one of the selected sprites go to “Sprite Actions” and click “Apply Paper 2D texture settings.” This setting makes the files that we imported look so much nicer. Also I recommend creating folders in engine to make things easier to find. There are 2 ways to import assets into Unreal Engine, the drag and drop method, or you can click import and import the assets you need. This site has characters and tilemaps, but if you have your own assets feel free to use them. The next thing we have to do is import the assets, I got mine from.

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