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Custom camera

Set Camera Location and Set Camera Rotation control where the embedded viewport renders from.

Follow the player (default pattern)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Tick as Event Tick or timer
  participant GVW as Game Viewport Widget
  participant PCM as Player Camera Manager
  Tick->>GVW: Set Camera Location(true)
  Tick->>GVW: Set Camera Rotation(true)
  GVW->>PCM: Read transform

Call both nodes each frame (or when the camera moves) with:

Use Player Camera Manager Location = true
Use Player Camera Manager Rotation = true

Security camera / picture-in-picture

Supply explicit transforms:

Set Camera Location
  Use Player Camera Manager Location: false
  Override Location: (X, Y, Z)

Set Camera Rotation
  Use Player Camera Manager Rotation: false
  Override Rotation: (Pitch, Yaw, Roll)

Feed Override Location from a Scene Component on a placed camera actor:

Get World Location / Rotation from CameraComponent
  → Set Camera Location / Rotation (override)

FOV and projection

Goal	Node
Zoom	Set FOV
Top-down map	Toggle Orthographic = true, then Set Orthographic Width
Debug shading	Update View Mode