Failing to Cast to a blueprint?

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Hey - apologies i’m new to blueprints - i’m just setting up a save game function in a gamemode blueprint - and i want to cast to a character blueprint that is my basemonster class that stors the LIF stat - i set up a variable “monsterClass” that is of type Character, but the cast keeps failing - all the youtube vids say this should work? what am i doing wrong?

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any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

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can you show me whats the MonsterClass variable that you have created? does it contain a reference?, for casting you need to have a reference to the actor you want to cast, i might suggest you to do the following, from the object of the cast, drag and instead of using the monsterclass, use the Get Player Character, or Get Player Pawn.

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Thanks for replying - this is the MonsterClass Variable - i’ve not done anything to it other than set it as type “Character” to match the MonsterBase type -

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Is there a step i’m missing?

Thanks,

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Are you sure you are assigning a concrete object to the MonserClass variable?

If not:
You have to use the “SpawnActorFromClass” node to create an instance of your BaseMonsterClassBP, then you can assign the return value of this node it to the variable.