Trying to access child actor's variables and events but unable to do it

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Basically, I made a Actor Blueprint called Waypoint which gets and store the distance between this Waypoint and the Player. I made another TextRender Actor Blueprint called Text2Display-W with a variable and a event of displaying the text in the variable.
I dragged the Text2Display-W Blueprint from content browser to Waypoint 's Component Tab, and dragged the Text2Display-W block from Component Tab to Event Browser, trying to get it while executing events.
I tried to execute the event written in Text2Display-W but i’m unable to access:

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It’s telling me that I’m actually dragging a child actor component, not the Text2Display actor component:
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I’m not sure how to fix this problem, can someone help me explain why? I’m thinking of this system being similar to Unity’s component system.

BTW, I made it working by using Get All Actors Of Class method, but I’m trying to optimize it.

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Pull from the reference and search for ‘get child actor’, then from there you need to cast to your actor type, then you can access it :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the help! It it right to assume that through dragging it from the reference, I’m getting the Child Actor Component of that Actor, but I actually need it’s Text2Display BP Actor Component to execute custom events in Text2DisplayBP?

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By dragging, you get the child actor from the child actor component. But it’s still a generic actor, so you have to cast, to reinterpret as your blueprint.