CastToMyCharacter Does Not Exist in the List

General Feedback & Requests
1

I am trying to follow these instructions:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Gameplay/HowTo/PossessPawns/Blueprints/index.html

but there is nothing available in the list that is called “Cast To MyCharacter”

I did find “Cast ToCharacter” Is that going to work? Why is the designated element missing from the editor?

2

“MyCharacter” is just what we named the Character derived Blueprint. So it’s really “Cast to [You character blueprint]”. Does that help?

3

Am I right in assuming you use version 4.7?

In version 4.0 to 4. default character was called “MyCharacter”. In 4.7 they’ve been renamed to “ThirdPersonCharacter” or the name of the template + character.
Search in the blueprint folder for your character or look it up in your gamemode. You have to use that name instead of “MyCharacter”. :wink:

Here are the two examples of how it should look like:

character.PNG&stc=1

character2.png
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&stc=1

4

Thanks. That is a good start.

Now I can’t create a Possess Node. It is simply not on the list. How do I fix that?

5

Possess is a function of the controller. You have to drag off of a “Get Controller” node and search for “Possess” then you can run that function from the character blueprint.