Cant get player velocity in another actor blueprint

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So I printed the value of the velocity in the main character blueprint and it shows up fine, but i made a reference in another class and it always displays velocity as 0. How to fix?

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Can you post a screenshot of your BP with the reference?

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The ‘person’ is the main character blueprint reference.

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Instead of creating the variable yourself Get Player Pawn > Cast to yourplayercharacter > Get Velocity.

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It works! Can you please explain why this works? Thank you so much!

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Casting to the playercharacterBP allows for the BP to get the actual values of the other BP it is accessing