Interaction between actor blueprint and child 3d widget component (UE5.0.3)

[EKruger]

Hi, I’ve got a bit of a problem I’ve been trying to solve, and would appreciate any help!

I have 2 main elements, an actor blueprint and a 3d widget component within that blueprint. I’d like to play a predefined animation on the 3d widget by entering a box trigger within the actor blueprint, using the overlap event to trigger an event to play the animation from the widget blueprint.

I have added basic custom events to the widget blueprint itself to trigger these animations, and can call them in the primary actor blueprint itself, but I am unsure at so how to target the 3d widget, or if I’m doing this correctly at all.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

[Tuerer]

WidgetComponent is not the widget, so you need to extract the widget itself from it first and Cast it to your widget class.
Use either [GetWidget] of [GetUserWidgetObject] node, I don’t remember which, see what works, and Cast it to your TrainInteractScreen, then you’ll be able to call the Pop In Widget function.

[EKruger]

You’re a blessing, thank you so much for your help, I’d been searching for a while on this but your explanation has not only worked but also made casting finally “click” in my head

Thank you again!!