Variables from an inherited class ACharacter

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hi,

I’ve got a problem with the values being returned for a super class.
I’ve got the following classes:

  1. CharacterBase → inherits from ACharacter
  2. HeroCharacter → inherits from CharacterBase.
  3. EnemyCharacter → inherits from CharacterBase.

I’ve got a variable bDied in the CharacterBase class which is set to true if health drops below 0.0f

if (Health <= 0.0f && !bDied) {
		bDied = true;

		GetMovementComponent()->StopMovementImmediately();
		GetCapsuleComponent()->SetCollisionEnabled(ECollisionEnabled::NoCollision);

		UE_LOG(LogTemp, Warning, TEXT("Has the Character Died: %s"), (bDied?TEXT("True"):TEXT("False")))
		
	}

This method only exists in the CharacterBase class.

Within the animation blueprint, which is the same for all enemy and the game character, I would cast the owner pawn to the CharacterBase and get the value of bDied so that I can play the Death animation.
The value returned is always false!!!
If I base the enemy off CharacterBase class, then bDied is returned true and the animation plays!!

Looks like some inheritance and casting thing, although not sure if this is C++ thing or UE thing, so not sure how’d I google for this. Would really like to know what’s going on here.

Thanks,

2

computer restarted and it just started working, I think my VS is also playing up, keeps complaining every couple of builds that solution file not found and project not loaded and I have got to refresh VS from editor after which it starts to work.

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did you declered bDies anywhere? How do you call this function?

4

Sorry did not see your message before…

bDied is a variable maintained on MyHeroCharacter’s header (.h) file, after the code detects that the health is <= the function just sets that to true, which is subsequently set to true in the Animation BP, which then triggers the death animation.

The function itself is registered with a custom delegate that I’ve created and gets fired everytime health changes.