Unable to cast from Child to Parent. Please help! T_T

[Achilleon]

Howdy everyone!

I really need a big help! I have a Child Actor in my Character Blueprint, and I can do anything with it! It’s no problem at all! I can cast to it. But… How can I cast from Child to Parent? It always fail. :<

This is my Blueprint. As you see, it is as simple as one could get. It got one Child Actor. Which is Movement_System_Ken.

Now inside that actor component, I try to cast to it’s Owner/Parent, but it all seems to be returning None no matter what I do.

I tried to cast to Child Actors from Parents, and it works! But for some reason, the same child actors, does not recognise their owners as… well, owners!

Am I missing something heavily?

Sorry if it’s a silly mistake. I just can’t figure out why a parent can cast to a child no problem, but the other way around doesn’t work

UPDATE

For some reason, casting works if I ADD the Child Actor to the BP with a BeginPlay event.

But why doesn’t it work when I have it on Blueprint before? Is there another way of casting from Child Actor to Parent, if it’s there from the very beginning?

Thanks in advance!

[OmniOwl]

There seems to be no attached parent to cast to…?

Please explain exactly what your Child and Parents are in terms of blueprint terminology.

[Achilleon]

It seems I have to Attach the Child Actor to the Root even when I have it created as Picture 1.

Because if I add it manually by “Add Actor Child” node (Picture 3), it says it will do so automaticaly, so casting works.

It strange but I think I have my solution.

Is there any reason a Child Actor that we put inside our BP like Picture 1 is not considered parented? I was just wondering this.

[anonymous_user_898730bc]

Why don;t you just have a Character Class blueprint? I comes with the capsule, mesh, and movement components in it and I feel would just make it a whole lot easier