Actor reference from child actor component

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Hey folks,

Is it possible to get an actor(object) reference from a child actor component?

i.e can I get an instance of a child actor to allow for me to call functions on it? I can’t seem to find a way to get the instance of the child actor from the child actor component variable.

Cheers

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Problem solved.

With the parent blueprint, get the child variable, get the child actor from the child variable, then cast to the desired class.

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Yeah. It is a bit of a contortionist act, currently. Hopefully they will correct that soon. If you are only picking through a very select few, you can also use tags to specify which of the child actors of a given type you want.

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Just started running to this. What a hassle. Ugh.

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To me this is worded a bit strangely, so for anyone else who didn’t get it at first read: Drop a reference to the Child Actor Component into your graph, then drag off from that and “get child actor”. That gives you an actor reference that you can use as-is or cast to something more specific. It’s as easy as it possibly can be.

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this is my usage.

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yes it looks weird. looks like onion lol.
but problem solved! thx a lot!!!

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Thanks for this I have been banging my head against a wall and making loads of round about ways to get the actor references, this makes my life lots easier :smiley:

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Hi is there a way to do this the other way around? So from child actor I want to access variables from parent actor.

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This works for me even I have two of the same child. No need to get reference from the children in your parent BP.

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Thanks, Just ran in to this. And you were correct about the wording.
This is the solution

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yea boy you saved me after 2 hours war with blueprint :DDDDD

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That helped me! Thank you!