CAST failed when using child of the CASTED parent character class

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I have a parent Character class

I have a child Character class

I have a respawn function in a PlayerState class which CASTS to the Parent Character Class

because i am using the Child Character Class and not the Parent Character Class

The Cast Fails and the function doesn’t complete

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I think it would be easier to paste the relevant parts of your code (like the class declarations, the respawn function, the respawn function calling instruction), isn’t it ?

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So, you have:

  • the parent class: X
  • the child class: Y
  • you respawn Y and you are trying to cast it to X?
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the Respawn function is in PlayerState

X which has a respawn function that is linked to the respawn function CALL in player state

Y doesnt have any code in it I was relying on inheritance giving Y the same stuff as X

i assumed that Y the Child character class would make the cast return True because its parent which is X is the class that the cast in the PlayerState is casting to

I was thinking of a possible solution which would be insted of casting the Respawn Function to The Character parent class i would cast it to ACharacter which is generic and would return successfull for all different Child character classes in game

would this be correct solution

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basically would casting to ACharacter instead of direct reference To the parent character class return true for all the Child Character classes

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the answer i was looking for is in this post

https://forums.unrealengine.com/development-discussion/blueprint-visual-scripting/104582-does-casting-to-the-parent-class-affect-children

what i did to fix it was instead of casting to AParentCharacterClass i casted to ACharacter

Using ACharacter sucsessfully casted to parent class and all child classes