Inheritance in BP: Parent BeginPlay Event not executed

[Dividuum]

Hi there,

I have set up three Blueprints: my “basicAIController”, who is the parent class of my “characterAIController” and my “NPCAIController”. Every Childs BeginPlay Event executes first it’s parents BeginPlay event.

In my Parent, “basicAIController”, I am getting references that are needed for both childs, like game mode, player controller or the POSSESED PAWN (which should be the pawn of the children). When I access the reference of the possed pawn in my children, I get told that the variable is empty.

For Debuging, I have put a print string into my parent, NPC and Char controllers BeginPlay Event. In theory, every controller should print once the message from the parent and one from itself, but when I start the game, the parent message is only printed ONCE. Why does that happen?

[Velrin]

Can you post a screenshot of your three blueprints?

[Velrin]

Make sure the child blueprints are calling their super’s (parent) BeginPlay in their blueprint.

[Everynone]

I guess parent’s BeginPlay is not called as default. Try it like this:

[Everynone]

This, 15s late, though.

[Dividuum]

This is the first, parent BP, “basicAIController”

First child: “characterAIController”

Second child: “NPCAIController”

As mentioned in the original post, the parent events are also called… thats why I’m confused…

[Dividuum]

As mentioned in the original post, the parent events are also called… thats why I’m confused…
You can see it in the pictures of my BPs I have added above

[Velrin]

Have you thrown a breakpoint in basic’s beginplay to see if the pawn cast succeeds?

[Dividuum]

Oh well, it looks like the cast fails three times… pretty dumb of me not to check it :0
Now I find out why it fails, but thats another topic… thanks for your help and time!