We’re not alone – adding an AI character

Creating an AI-controlled character from scratch would take us into areas that fall outside the scope of this book, so, instead, we're going to repurpose the standard player character from the third-person template and change the way it's controlled. 

If you already have a project created using the third-person template available, open it up. If not, create one:

• Select File | New Project, and create a new Blueprint project using the third-person template. It's fine to leave other settings at their default values – they won't affect anything we're doing.

Migrating the third-person character blueprint

Whether we've taken an existing third-person template project or created a new one, what we want to do now is migrate the ThirdPersonCharacter blueprint:

1. In the third-person project's content browser, navigate to Content/ThirdPersonBP/Blueprints and select the ThirdPersonCharacter blueprint.
2. Right-click and select Asset Actions | Migrate. Migrate the character...