Casting from APawn* to MyCustomCharacter* ? Is this ok?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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Do not use the old C-style cast. The preferred way would be

APlayerMallet* mallet=Cast<APlayerMallet>(gamestate->PlayerArray[i]->GetPawn());

if(mallet) {
  mallet->SomeMethodSpecificToMallet();
}

This is a dynamic cast that makes sure that “mallet” is nullptr if it is not a APlayerMallet instance. Your example would crash if for some reason GetPawn() returns something else.