Cannot get Mesh of USkeletalComponent

Development Character & Animation
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I have a third person Character. I want to attach an ActorComponent to my Character.

In ActorComponent.cpp

I want to get the rootComponent(or simply the character itself) of the Actor its attached to.
Then I want to get the SkeletalMesh and from this I want to get the AnimInstance .

So my code looks like this:

//AActor * rootComponent = GetOwner();

ACharacter* myCharacter = Cast<ACharacter>(GetOwner());
USkeletalMeshComponent* CharacterMesh = GetMesh();

UAnimationInstance * AnimationInstance = Cast<UAnimationInstance>(
			CharacterMesh->GetAnimInstance());
	check(AnimationInstance != nullptr);
	check(CharacterMesh);
	auto Mesh = CharacterMesh;

Thats the error I get:

 error: 
      use of undeclared identifier 'GetMesh'; did you mean 'GetDesc'?
        USkeletalMeshComponent* CharacterMesh = GetMesh();
                                                ^~~~~~~
                                                GetDesc
note: 
      'GetDesc' declared here
        virtual FString GetDesc() { return TEXT( "" ); }
                        
error: 
      no viable conversion from 'FString' to 'USkeletalMeshComponent *'
        USkeletalMeshComponent* CharacterMesh = GetMesh();

Can someone help implement my idea. Thank you!

2

Thank you! This eliminated the error.

3

GetMesh() is not part of the class which you are trying to call it. Try this instead:

 ACharacter* myCharacter = Cast<ACharacter>(GetOwner());
 USkeletalMeshComponent* CharacterMesh = myCharacter->GetMesh();