how to clear widget display after ActorEventEndOverlap (RESOLVED with help from Kalakus )

[kalakus]

@razmaz51

ok I got it all back and working now , the widget counter and the print string counting down , when i end overlap it all disappears. re enter overlap and timer starts from 45 , which it should. so that is all good . you been a tremendous help , i appreciate it , thanks for your time on this. only issue now is it doing damage but not losing health. it was working before at one point , it may be because i had the players health variable in front of “player get damage”. But this is when the logic was on the character bp. i’ll have to check. i’m still relatively new with the engine so its is tough. Is there a way i can get the “players health” variable from the character bp into the timer bp as well?Moving stuff between b
lueprints is tricky for me. thanks again

i’m glad you solved, you can get the players health at the same way you’ve called the macro previously, cast to BP_TPPCharacter but this time Get or Set the players health instead.

Remember that:

• you can access any events, function, macro and variable from other blueprints, for example if from timer you want to know something or do something on your BP_TPPCharacter you can cast to it with the Cast To node, cast to is like: “i need to have access to that blueprint because I need something from there but I’m not there, I’m actually in another place”, in this case you’re in the timer blueprint, but you need to get the health value that is stored on your character blueprint, so you’re performing a cast.
• if you need to access to Actor component (like timer) you can use Get all Actors from Class

it will take some time to understand cast to, is normal don’t worry about it, but I think you start to understand what Cast To do and what Get all Actors from Class do.