Restart game with custom gamemode?

[RobbeVlaeminck]

Hi everyone!

Im trying to restart my game, but the ‘restart game’ node is only compatible with a game mode object reference. The issue here is that I have my own gamemode, so the cast in pic related will always fail (since its the wrong gamemode). Casting to my own gamemode doesnt allow me to connect it.

Does anyone know a fix? Thanks!

[RobbeVlaeminck]

@ClavosTech

You should show your Gamemode exacty as its displayed:
Include a screenshot of Project Settings -> Maps & Mods…

sure, here you go

[RobbeVlaeminck]

@ClavosTech

There’s not a lot more to this dude tbh. When you drag a blue wire out of the Get Game Mode node and then type Cast To into the popup box (with context sensitive ticked), how many options do you see?

What you should see are all the possible Game Modes in the current project as detected by the editor. Now hover the mouse over the Game Mode in Maps & Modes (otherwise the field is actually truncated in the editor). Have you spelt the Gamemode differently there?

Is it really VRGameMode_Base2 or something else close but different? Otherwise there’s no reason the editor would block you from dragging a blue wire from Cast To VRGameMode_Base to Restart Game in your original screenshot…

it has exactly the same spelling. As I said before, the restart node can only be connected to the default game mode. I added another picture to clarify it a bit more. Thanks for your help.

[RobbeVlaeminck]

@BrUnO XaVIeR

Do you realize you don’t need to cast anything?
Just connect “Get Game Mode” to “Restart Level”.

The Get Game Mode node will return the GM you set in your Level’s World Settings panel.
If what you set there is a “VRGameMode_Base” then that is what the node will get.

When a function uses a base type (AGameMode), you never need to up-cast from children classes.

I wish it were that easy I think that used to be the case in an older version of unreal, but that doesnt work atm

I fixed it for now by just using the base game mode, but its quite an annoying workaround.