[Bug/Feature] Player Controller floods Log

Development Programming & Scripting
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I have my PlayerController class with overriden Tick(float) function. I put there exception protection:

AMyPlayerState * MyPlayerState = (AMyPlayerState*)PlayerState;
if(!MyPlayerState->IsValidLowLevelFast())
{
    //There was UE_LOG, but i removed it.
    return;
}

This is Tick function, so I used fastest way to catch bad pointers (without cast). This code do it’s job flawlessly, but it have one issue: IsValidLowLevelFast flooding Log with LogUObjectBase:Error: ‘this’ pointer is invalid.. This is strange, because it is check function, it must not log it’s actions.
And there a second bug/my-fault: this flooding is get going after i stopped simulation. This means, that PlayerController still exists in memory even when there is no simulation running. Is that OK?
These two moments not affecting game stability by way.

P.S. And i have engine version 4.8.0 still.

2

Hey HungryDoodles,

I’ve assigned a member of our team to look into this for you, and they’ll post here if they need further information. Thanks for your report!

3

Hey HungryDoodles-

You may want to avoid using C style casts since they will try to preform cast even if it’s not correct type. Instead you can use UE4 casts (=Cast(PlayerState>) instead since it will check for a valid type automatically. log spam would be expected if value is Null. best way to check for this would be to make sure that PlayerState is valid itself with an “if(PlayerState)” first and place cast inside if statement.

Cheers