I’m trying to possess a character that I have placed in the level already, which is fairly simple via the level blueprint, except I’m using a menu and need to do it the via the Widget blueprint, I don’t know how to make reference to the character.
Please help! Thanks in advance.
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theres several ways to get the reference and its all really dependent on your setup as to which one you should use. but heres a few ideas, you could use a public variable thats set via the details panel while in the editor, you could use a line trace to again set a variable, or you could use the get all of class node which isnt advisable.
the below pictures are two examples on how you could accomplish this task.
the first picture shows a method where you have a reference to the pawn to be possesed in the level bp and you use that to set a variable in the game mode. then in the widget you just need to get the game mode and get the variable. this will give you a reference to the character so that you can posses it.
the second picture shows how you can set a variable in the widget when the widget is created. basically you use the create widget node, then drag off of the return value (this is a reference to the widget that could be made a variable for use later) and search for the variable you created in the widget.
this is just a few ways to accomplish this and there are many more out there. give us a bit more info on your setup and i can come up with something more tailored to your specific case.
It’s just a simple set up with 3 characters in the level selected by menu options - your first example worked. Thank you!
