Unreal Engine Enhanced Input Sprint

Learn how to implement sprinting in Unreal Engine using Enhanced Input.

Firstly, we need to create a new Input Action.

• Right-click on the Content>ThirdPerson>Input>Actions folder and select Input.
• Then, click on Input Action to create a new one.
• Name it IA_Sprint.

Then, we need to select the Value type as Digital (bool).

After that, we need add IA_Sprint to IMC_Default and set the Key as LeftShift.

Now, to be able to use the IA_Sprint, we need to prepare the BP_ThirdPersonCharacter blueprint.

Firstly, we need to create a new two variable named WalkSpeed and SprintSpeed set it as Float.

After that, we need to set the default value of WalkSpeed and SprintSpeed as 250 and 500.

And then, we need to set Max Walk Speed value in the Character Movement component to 250

Now we can start to implement the sprinting logic.

Firstly, we need to create a new functions named SprintStart and SprintStop.

SprintStart function will set the Max Walk Speed value to SprintSpeed.

SprintStop function will set the Max Walk Speed value to WalkSpeed

Everything is ready now, we can start to call IA_Sprint in the BP_ThirdPersonCharacter blueprint.