How to reference an actor's component in blueprint

[xianthryllis]

I have an Actor in my Level, and it has the following components: DefaultSceneRoot and LidarPointCloud1.

When I open it’s blueprint, I expect to see LidarPointCloud under My Blueprint > Variables > Components. However, the LidarPointCloud component object reference is not here:

In my blueprint, I’m trying to reference this component. I already tried adding a new variable of type Lidar Point Cloud Component which I named NewVar, and I just keep getting this error: Accessed None trying to read property NewVar. Here it is:

How do I go about this error? Thank you so much in advance.

[ClockworkOcean]

What’s in the components list? ( Usually top left in the blueprint ).

[xianthryllis]

I’m not sure where to look so I’ll send my whole screen:

Let me know if it’s enough

[ClockworkOcean]

You’ve twiddled with the windows…

This one

[xianthryllis]

Oops! Didn’t know how that went missing…

Here it is:

[xianthryllis]

Thank you! I managed to find out what to do from there! I added a component using the Add (+) button. Thank you very much!