Yet another Casting problem

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Hi everyone,

I’m trying now for hours to cast to my BP without any success. Hope you can help.

I have a character class “0_Base” and try to cast to an actor class “BP_Rotator”. Whatever Object I connect to the cast note “Cast To BP_Rotator” in my 0_Base BP fails.

I tried: GetOwner, GetParentActor that just fails because the variable I’m setting is empty.

GetPlayerController and GetPlayerCharacter gives me a warning “…Does not inherit from…”

I got the point that my cast has to know what object I’m referring to, but I really struggle with what the object is in some cases.

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We do better with screenshots and videos. Please show the problem.

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No problem. The whole game is based on the Unreal Multiplayer Tutorial. I just created a new map and created the “BP_Rotator” which is in my scene.

Here my two BPs:

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You should read up what casting in an object oriented paradigm means.

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Yes of course. Thanks!!!

I solved the same issue month ago and it also took me hours to figure that out. Got off track with the cast note. I just forgot to choose the Default value (BP_Rotator) for “0_Base” character in the details panel. This is such an annoying Engine implementation and not intuitive whatsoever!

Here the tutorial for everyone else: Direct Blueprint Communications | Unreal Engine Documentation

This only works if I drag my character into the scene because only than I have the details panel. How can I do the same if I work with "PlayerStart"s? In this case I can’t set the default value.