How to get parent actor of attached actor?

Yaklakootmaa2 · February 9, 2022, 11:00pm

Hello to everyone
I’m using the AttachActorToComponent node to attach spawned actor to the pawn’s component.
I’m trying to raycast (LineTraceForObjects) and check does Out Hit Hit Actor is part of the player’s pawn or not
But I can’t understand how does it work, I tried several things and got the same result "access to none trying to read… "
Raycast works well, I can get Get Display Name of the actor

Everynone · February 10, 2022, 12:25pm

You may need to show us how you do it.

How to get parent actor of attached actor?

It sounds like this should be enough:

Yaklakootmaa2 · February 10, 2022, 3:27pm

Thanks, it works if I raycast to the attached actor, but got the same errors when I tried to raycast other pawns, probably I need to do IsValid check
I did a pretty simple logic
In Trace Object Types Local array I have pawn and this attached actor (shield in my case)

Everynone · February 10, 2022, 3:33pm

What I meant is that that single node would give you:

get parent actor of attached actor

No trace needed. On the other hand I might be misunderstanding what’s needed. And on the third hand, you flagged it solved. Is it?

Yaklakootmaa2 · February 10, 2022, 6:56pm

Well, my goal is to check where a gun on my spaceship is aiming at, and then if it’s aiming to the ship itself - disable shooting.
So, I’m trying to raycast in the direction of the gun to determine what the gun is aiming at

Everynone · February 11, 2022, 9:34am

Providing this is the gun, the script is set up correctly.

Where does the attaching comes into play?

You may want to tick Ignore Self as the actor can trace against itself, unless that’s what you want.

Yaklakootmaa2 · February 11, 2022, 9:54pm

Yeah, this is the ref to gun
It attaches here

I want to trace the actor itself because I want to prevent shooting in the case if the gun is aiming through the ship’s parts

You helped me to find the right node, it works as intended.
This is the final