Workaround: Cast to child blueprint errors

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I’ve been wrestling with a blueprints bug where you can’t cast a class down to a child class. Sometimes it works in editor, but seems to always catch when cooking.

User Cornish183 offered a workaround which worked for me here: https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/339295/erroneous-cast-would-always-fail-warning.html

Basically, you can make a local variable that is an actor ref, save the parent class in the actor ref, and then cast that actor ref as the child class. Cheers to Cornish 183!

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Why cant you just cast to the parent? Casting to the parent will then get child.

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The bug is that if you are trying to cast a blueprint to a child of that blueprint, it will either outright fail or will fail during cooking.