Cannot Cast to Custom Game State

[serp0002]

I am trying to access a variable in my custom game state but when I try to ‘get game state’ and then ‘cast to game state’ with it, I can only see the base ‘GameState’ object that the engine provides.

This is the error:

I have updated the world settings / default settings to have my custom game mode / game state:

I see from tutorials / other threads that you should see the actual game state you defined in world settings when you cast. My desired behavior is like below:

I have been stuck on this a while so please let me know if you have any ideas - i would really appreciate it.

PS: I’ve tried creating new blueprints, levels, restarting engine, etc. but nothing seems to work.

[ClockworkOcean]

You have to drag from the ‘as game state’ pin, and search for your variable.

[serp0002]

Thank you for the response!

I tried to do this and i can see the ‘get chosen variable’ but when I select it, the nodes are not connected. When I try to connect the nodes I have the same exact situation as my first screenshot.

[serp0002]

Just solved it on my own…silly mistake.

When you do ‘cast to game state’ you need to actually cast to your custom game state, ie: ‘Cast to [CUSTOM_GS]’ and then get game state and plug it in. I was trying to cast to the base game state, so the output was always just that base game state with no values inside it.

[KarenTorresa]

You have to drag from the ‘as game state’ pin, and search for your variable.