Cast to actor component

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Hi All!

I stuck with a “cast to” object reference problem. Didn’t find an answer.

So I have a building (just a static mesh) and I’m attaching blueprint component to it. The component makes building to change materials when the mouse cursor is hovered over it. No problem here.

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Then I’ve also decided to get tag information from the building (in the same component) and display it on the screen by using a widget.
So now I have the variable with tag information set on mouse hover.

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Then I’ve created a widget blueprint and tried to cast to actor component and failed miserably. Have no idea what to put in “object”.

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What am I missing? Is my approach correct?

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Do you need to get the mesh reference from the current actor?

Then it would ‘current actor’ → cast to ‘material and kks’ → get static mesh

It’s a bit hard to tell without knowing where this code is situated.

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Welcome to the Unreal Engine forums @Dimitrisv and happy holidays!

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