Short guide on how to setup your character to be able to use the Settings and the Pause Menu.

1. Pause Menu Implemention:

Follow this guide only if you already have a character you want to use.

  1. Open your Character blueprint.

  2. Make sure that after the begin play event you have a “Set Input Mode Game Only” if you want to control the character as soon as the level loads.

  3. Now, on the left side, under Components, add a “Pause_Menu_AC” component.

  4. Click on it, and then scroll down to the Events category and add the “On Settings Changed” event.

  5. Now promote that Settings output to a variable, like in the example, it will allow you to easily access the player settings.

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  6. Now add an input to open the pause menu, like in the example.

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