Interaction with the multi page turn actor



Create a Third Person Template Project

Add Old Animated Books to your Project

Start the Epic Games Launcher

Select Unreal Engine

Select Library

Select Add to Project

Select your newly created project

Modify the "BP_MultipageTurnActor"

You may also duplicate the actor instead of modifying it, but this will require also to duplicate the AnimBluePrint and adjusting all the casts and references. For simplicity we will modify the existing actor:

Open the MultipageturnActor

Remove the auto page turning logic:

Add the following Nodes:

Add Two Custom Events

TurnForwardPublic for accessing the turn forward logic outside (with our third person character)

TurnBackPublic for accessing the turn back loogic from outside (with our third person character)

Add a camera to the view port of the actor and name it "camera"

Place the camera as follows:

Add a Box Collision to the Viewport

Place the Box collision as follows:

Save and Compile

Modify the Third Person Character

Add a Box Component to the Third Person Character:

Place the Box like this:

Add Overlapping Events

One for Begin Overlap

One for End Overlap

Create the following overlap logic

We will start Interaction with the book by pressing "E", then we will listen to the inputs of "Z" and "X" to Control the page turning once we are interacting with the book For the E Key create the following Logic:

This will handle the interaction and switches the camera when interacting.For the Z and X Key create the following logic:

Compile and Save

Place the Book and Play Test

Place the BP_MultipageTurnActor something like this and hit Play

Result: