Get Access to Pawn Variables from an Actor object

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I am trying to get access to my player pawn from an actor. I am not sure what to do. Please help. thanks.

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You have to cast from the Actor to your pawn class.

void YourClass::OnOverlapBegin(UPrimitiveComponent* OverlappedComp, AActor* OtherActor, UPrimitiveComponent* OtherComp, int32 OtherBodyIndex, bool bFromSweep, const FHitResult& SweepResult)
{
	if ((OtherActor != this))
	{
      AYourPawnClass* tempPawn = Cast<AYourPawnClass>(OtherActor);
       if(tempPawn)
        {
           tempPawn->VariableYouWantToAccess = 10;
        }
     }
}

My apologies if I’ve misunderstood the question. if you’re interested in an actor like a projectile that has been called to be spawn by the owning pawn. GetInstigator may be a solution or custom collision channels

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Yup yup, I figured it out earlier but forgot to comment. I used the following lines of code`enter code here

    for (FConstPawnIterator Iterator = GetWorld()->GetPawnIterator(); Iterator; ++Iterator)
   {  
        if (Iterator->Get()->GetName() == "VR_PlayerChaperone_0")
        {
            auto i = Cast<AVR_PlayerChaperone>(Iterator->Get());
            if (i->arrow)
                i->arrow->current_arrow_state = AProjectileArrow::AIM;

        }
    }