How do get information, such as 'actor location' using 'actor has tag' ?

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I’m making a tower defense game. I’ve an enemy which has the tag ‘enemy’ and a tower which has a sphere. Anything with the tag ‘enemy’ that overlaps this sphere is supposed to be shot at. I used the function ‘On component begin overlap’ and I’m looking for anything with the tag ‘enemy’ like in the image

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I want to know the location of the actor with the tag ‘enemy’ that overlapped the sphere. How do I do this?

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Assuming only one actor will at a time:

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This gives the enemy fixed location, but the enemy is moving. How to update its location?

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You’ll need to store a pointer to that actor and get its location in Tick or a timer.

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Why is this not working? It seems that the overlaps trigger twice and it stops. So I added a loop so the tower keeps shooting. But this way the location is not updating. Care to elaborate on how to fix this please?

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My guess is that the pointer to the actor is no longer valid so it doesnt know from where to pull the location.

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I created a variable of type ‘actor’ then placed the enemy actor inside it. This solved the problem.

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