Hello, so i have a weapon system where every weapon is its own actor then i have an Actor Socket on my character where i set what weapon actor i wanna use like this:
And then i more or less use the weapons animation blueprint for all the functions, but to replicate the shoot function correctly i think i need to run it on my servers character right? So i need to cast back to the character ( The parent ).
I dont know how to reference my character, the game is a multiplayer game so i cannot do PlayerController because that makes all the players on the map shoot.
Do i need to first cast back to the weapon actor from the animation blueprint, and then cast to the parent or something?
If your character contains all the shooting logic, which it seems like it does: Inside the animation blueprint, use the “Get Owning Pawn” and cast that to your character class that handles the shooting logic.
If your character doesn’t contain the shooting logic, it’s handled by your child actor class instead. Inside the animation blueprint, use the “Get Owning Actor” and cast that to your weapon actor class.
I noticed you posted here too, which I also answered. Check it out.
You are obtaining player character 0. Try using the “Get Owning Pawn” it’s dynamic. then cast to your character, then obtain the child actor from that, then cast to your weapon class, then call the event. See how that goes.
Edit: I think I see the problem.
Your server is the only one doing the line trace. In your character blueprint, you need to tell the server to do something, then get the server to tell every client to do it. So;
use an event that is set to “Replicate to server(if owning client)”
Then get the server to use a “Replicate to all(If server)”
The Cast from AnimBP fails if i use TryGetPawnOwner, GetPlayerCharacter is the only thing that succedes the cast. Or… It says it works, but i get no linetrace what so ever ingame when i shoot if i cast using TryGetPawnOwner.
I Guess that is what you ment because there is no such thing as GetOwningPawn in the list when i try to cast from AnimBP
EDIT: Get PlayerPawn Works, though it gives the same result, Linetrace only shows at the Server
Sorry yeah, that’s what I meant. Try connecting a print to see what’s actually coming out of the cast. Have you tried the multiplayer events I suggested yet?
Okay so i have tried going all crazy ways in the characterBP, and i either get the same result ( Only fires on the Server )
Or none can Fire.
However, if i run the Linetrace inside the animationBP everything works exacly ow i should, so i dont know, if nothing works on the characterBP i guess i have to go with doing the linetrace inside the AnimBP instead. The problem with that is that do now have the CameraPosition to start the Linetrace from, but i’ll try to reference it into the animBP in some way.
