Why are my characters invisible when setting the DefaultPawnClass to my custom character class in GameMode?

Development Programming & Scripting C++
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I made a child MyGameMode class that inherits from GameMode, and I also have a MyThirdPersonCharacter class that inherits from ThirdPersonCharacter. Why is it that when I replace the default

static ConstructorHelpers::FClassFinder<APawn> PlayerPawnBPClass(TEXT("/Game/ThirdPersonCPP/Blueprints/ThirdPersonCharacter"));
	if (PlayerPawnBPClass.Class != NULL)
	{
		DefaultPawnClass = PlayerPawnBPClass.Class;
	}

code in the contstructor with this:

DefaultPawnClass = AMyThirdPersonCharacter::StaticClass();

it ends up just spawning invisible characters? Note that the game works absolutely fine so far with the former code, but I want to know why it doesn’t work with the latter. Wouldn’t the correct way be to set it to my custom class?

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It’s because the ThirdPersonCharacter blueprint class inherits from my C++ class, not the other way around. Therefore, the C++ class had no SkeletalMesh or animation info in it to use.