Hover over Actor in Multiplayer

Development Programming & Scripting Multiplayer & Networking
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Hey there, thank you for reading!

I have an event that causes my cursor to change color depending on what actor the cursor is hovered over–cursor is green if hovered over a friendly actor, red if an enemy actor, and default color if neither are true.

In single player this was easy to do as I could use an Event ActorBeginCursorOver on the actor itself and cast to the gameMode to change the cursor color. How can I accomplish this when there are multiplayer player controllers? ActorBeginCursorOver does not seem to know which player is hovering over it.

I tried a few things with using BindEvent to OnBeginCursor over on the actual playercharacter and casting to the desired actor–but I can not get that function to even fire (tried bindinging it from BeginPlay on the playercontroller).

Any thoughts? What is the correct approach?

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Perhaps it would work to simply have the controller handle it instead of the hovered actor. The controller knows who itself is.

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Thank you for the response! That is what I ended up doing–the player controller has an event tick on it that checks for hit results under cursor by channel–then I use that to see if a relevant actor is underneath the cursor and go from there. Not sure that is the most efficient method (it might be), but it works! Thank you!