Why's my cast to the correct class failing?

[BRGEzedeRocco]

Hello @tolacipeetahi ,
I’m not very familiar with animations, but I’ve been doing some research and found several posts describing a very similar issue. In many cases, they mention that the Cast fails because the reference is not yet valid when Update Animation is executed.

Some of the suggested solutions are:

• Adding an Is Valid node at the beginning, before trying to use or cast the Pawn.

• Using Get Owning Actor instead of Try Get Pawn Owner, as mentioned in one of the posts, since in some cases the AnimBP doesn’t have a valid Pawn at that moment.
  
  

Try Get Pawn Owner. Return Value = None

I just wanted to add this for Posterity. The “TryGetPawnOwner” node only works if your skeletal mesh is implemented inside a Blueprint Pawn. This is fine if you’re using a blueprint pawn for your character, however, it will fail any time your actor is NOT a pawn. So, if you place a skeletal mesh in a scene directly and set it to use the AnimBP,(IE it’s not a Character Pawn blueprint with a skeletal mesh inside) then this will always fail. So this alternative to using the “TryGetPawnOwner” node …

I’ll leave you another post where they discuss this behavior in more detail

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Hi there, I’ve already searched the forums/answer hub for something on this and what I found didn’t seem to apply to me, so here goes. I’m working on an anim instance for a character in my game, and I need his speed to set his blend properly. However, no matter what I try, TryGetPawnOwner always returns none even when I do, in fact, have a pawn owner. I’m attaching screenshots to show that I have an owner and what it’s doing, and I’d appreciate any insight or small thing I’m probably overloo…

Hope it helps!