Everyone, I got it. The problem was…kind of dumb, actually. So in the above picture, I called the Get Player Character node. Makes sense…but my Player isn’t of the character class, it was of the Pawn class. I was trying all kinds of “Get Player …” nodes when I saw that there was a “Get Player Pawn” node. So I tried that instead, and it fixed the problem. It works exactly as intended.
Thanks for all your help! I’m especially grateful since I never really got the answer straight, but you guys nudged me the right direction. So thank you! 