Casting hit actor from line trace always fails

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hi,

I am having trouble casting my hit actor from a single line trace to my custom blueprint class (which inherits from Character). I broke the hit result struct, then next cast the hit actor to my custom class (so that I can retrieve a variable from it), but the cast fails every time. I know that the hit result is the correct object because when I print its name, it is correct. Any idea as to why this is the case? Basically, I just need to cast the hit result actor to my custom class, which inherits from the Character class. Thanks in advance.

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Can you show screenshot from bp?

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He wants to cast the hitresult actor. Why should he get all actors of class? :smiley:

We just need the BP to see what he is doing wrong in his setup or what prevents the Hitactor from getting casted correctly.

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before trying to cast, use the node get all actors of class, then cast from that instead,

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Thanks for trying to help. I managed to figure this one out by messing around with it. It turns out that it was just a simple problem with my line trace when my character looked up from the baseline, towards where I had just moved the object of interest. The line trace was hitting my character’s own capsule when looking up, as the start point originated from the player’s “eyes”. I just made the line trace ignore the player character. I thought it was still hitting the correct object but I had taken off the print node because I thought I wouldn’t need it anymore. Now I know to only change one thing at a time. Anyway, it is all good now. Thanks for trying to help.