Merged in main

The enemy now can fling all types of actors so long as they can be cast to a character (player and passenger). Also, it flings to the side by a random degrees to prevent the enemy from "dribbling the player like a basketball"(moves forward, flings forward, moves forward, etc). The passenger blueprint has been made(will most likely need to be merged with whatever other one is on the main branch.) The passenger has a 25% of running in a circle, 25% of picking a random direction to face and then run in, and 50% of standing in utter panic.

Source/jumpingship/MoveComponent.cpp

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+// Fill out your copyright notice in the Description page of Project Settings.
+
+
+#include "MoveComponent.h"
+
+// Sets default values for this component's properties
+UMoveComponent::UMoveComponent()
+{
+	// Set this component to be initialized when the game starts, and to be ticked every frame.  You can turn these features
+	// off to improve performance if you don't need them.
+	PrimaryComponentTick.bCanEverTick = true;
+
+}
+
+
+// Called when the game starts
+void UMoveComponent::BeginPlay()
+{
+	Super::BeginPlay();
+
+	// Set start location
+	StartRelativeLocation = this->GetRelativeLocation();
+
+	//Compute normalized movement
+	MoveOffsetNorm = MoveOffset;
+	MoveOffsetNorm.Normalize();
+	MaxDistance = MoveOffset.Length();
+	//Check if ticking required
+	SetComponentTickEnabled(MoveEnable);
+}
+
+
+// Called every frame
+void UMoveComponent::TickComponent(float DeltaTime, ELevelTick TickType, FActorComponentTickFunction* ThisTickFunction)
+{
+	Super::TickComponent(DeltaTime, TickType, ThisTickFunction);
+	//Set the current distance
+	if (MoveEnable)
+	{
+		CurDistance += DeltaTime * Speed * MoveDirection;
+		if (CurDistance >= MaxDistance || CurDistance <= 0.0f) {
+			MoveDirection *= -1;
+		}
+	}
+	// Compute and set current location
+	SetRelativeLocation(StartRelativeLocation + MoveOffsetNorm * CurDistance);
+}

Source/jumpingship/MoveComponent.h

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+// Fill out your copyright notice in the Description page of Project Settings.
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "CoreMinimal.h"
+#include "Components/SceneComponent.h"
+#include "MoveComponent.generated.h"
+
+
+UCLASS(ClassGroup = (Actors), meta = (BlueprintSpawnableComponent))
+class JUMPINGSHIP_API UMoveComponent : public USceneComponent
+{
+	GENERATED_BODY()
+
+public:
+	// Sets default values for this component's properties
+	UMoveComponent();
+
+protected:
+	// Called when the game starts
+	virtual void BeginPlay() override;
+
+public:
+	// Called every frame
+	virtual void TickComponent(float DeltaTime, ELevelTick TickType, FActorComponentTickFunction* ThisTickFunction) override;
+
+	//Offset to move
+	UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere)
+	FVector MoveOffset;
+private:
+	friend class FMoveComponentVisualizer;
+
+	// Enables the movement of the component
+	UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere)
+	bool MoveEnable = true;
+	//Speed
+	UPROPERTY(EditAnywhere)
+	float Speed = 1.0f;
+
+	//Computed locations
+	FVector StartRelativeLocation;
+	FVector MoveOffsetNorm;
+	float MaxDistance = 0.0f;
+	float CurDistance = 0.0f;
+	float MoveDirection = 1;
+};