Casting AActor to pawn

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I am getting an AActor array of my AITanks. I then try looping through the array getting my AITanks setting them to a TempAITank and then casting from that tank to get the controller.

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The issue is that the “GetController()” method is not apart of the AAcotor Class. But when changing my pointer from “AActor* TempAITank;” to “APawnAITank* TempAITank;” I get the error “Can not convert AActor to APawnAITank”

So is there a way to convert my AActors to APawnAITank? Or is there a way to an Array of my pawns from the scene, in my created game mode?

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You’ve declared the TArray on line 67 as AActor which doesn’t match the APawnAITank* TempAITank when you try to assign it.

I’m 99% sure that if you change the TArray, you won’t need to cast since it will definitely be a type of APawnAITank and can go straight to line 76 with:
TankAIControllerRef = Cast(AITank[i]->GetController());

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When I change line 67 to be APawnAITank* I get the error on line 68 because it wants an AActor array. not an APawnAITank array and it can not convert it.

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UGameplayStatics::GetAllActorsOfClass(GetWorld(), APawnAITank::StaticClass(), AllActors);
for (AActor* Actor : AllActors)
{
APawnAITank* AITank = Cast(Actor);
AITank->GetController();
// …
}

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Parameter signature of UGameplayStatics::GetAllActorsOfClass()

(const UObject* WorldContextObject, TSubclassOf<AActor> ActorClass, TArray<AActor*>& OutActors)

OutActors has to be TArray<AActor*>.