How can I allow the player to 'pick up' money?

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I am trying to set up a money system in my game.

I have imported a static mesh and then created a blueprint from it. I set up it’s collision to allow for overlapping and programmed it to add to a variable and then destroy itself when the player runs over it. Only it doesn’t work, for some reason. Any help would be appreciated. I have attached a screenshot of the blueprints of the mesh.

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What part isn’t working? Does event fire? Does money get incremented? Dies the message get displayed?

3

your pickup is paying itself. use the OtherActor reference, cast it to your character type, and set the character’s money variable, instead of the pickup’s money variable.

4

The ‘Begin Overlap’ event doesn’t fire at all.

5

Thanks, fixed that. Now I just have to get the event to fire; I don’t see the reason why it doesn’t.

6

check the objects collision. the money pickup should have a box or sphere collision component as its root component, and its collision setting should be set to overlap pawn and ignore all other types.