Why pawn is not other actor while overlapping in C++?

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Hi, I am overlapping a box collision so its mean I the pawn is other actor, but checking this is always failed as in the example I will show.

This always print Overlap Failed

void AMyTestClass::OnOverlapBegin(UPrimitiveComponent* OverlappedComponent, AActor* OtherActor, UPrimitiveComponent* OtherComp, int32 OtherBodyIndex, bool bFromSweep, const FHitResult & SweepResult)
{
	if (OtherActor == CharacterRef) //CharacterRef is a direct * refference to the MyBaseCharacterClass
	{
		printf("OverLapped Passed");
	}
		printf("OverLap Failed");
}

at the same time doing this in blueprints is not failing and overlapped passed.
This always print Overlap Item Passed

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2

Checking with
if (OtherActor == this) //also failed always , logically it should not get failed because this is also defining the current actor which is overlapping is character.

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the nature of blueprints is many things are goin on behind the scenes, in your bp script that

== is not using the straight if(…){…} , I think some dynamic casting is happenin behind the scene to compare actor and character , create a native code of your script and check if it will help you to see how and when the casting is occured.
or try to store the result in a bool comparing actor and character on dynamic casting and then check that bool in under if statement…

Hope it helped you.

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nice trick, I will look into this, Thank You Sir very much for suggestion :slight_smile:

5

Just out of curiosity: is it printing both “Overlapped Passed” and “Overlap Failed”?

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Hi, Nope it just print Overlap Failed.