Collide with an Actor Class?

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so I can simply create a child blueprint class for each animal type and simply change the model.

That would work, yes.

is there any way to have the On Component Begin Overlap commands in the level blueprint

Yes, it’s possible. You can place Trigger Boxes and have their Events fire when things overlap them - think area trap or a healing zone. Or a chicken coop that spawns chickens when the player enters.

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but it can’t find the postprocess volume because it is in the Third Person Character blueprint. There’s gotta be a way to communicate between those blueprints…

Accessing framework classes (game mode, controller, character and so on) is pretty straightforward and can be done from pretty much anywhere, like so:

The other way round, sending information *to *the Level Blueprint, is a tad more complicated but can be done, too.