I’m currently having a very difficult time getting my character’s weapon to function properly. This is all stemming from the fact that, as my project is a fangame, I am porting over assets from the original game to use as placeholders for the time being and the original game’s assets were made to work in ways that sometimes seem a bit difficult to replicate in Unreal.
Initially, I was able to make things work by having the weapon as a Child Actor component of my character and snapping the static mesh to a socket I created on the character’s skeleton. However, this presents me with the problem of not having animations for the gun itself (the original game separates the guns and arms into separate models with the arms made to follow animations on the gun (at least that’s my understanding anyway)). I’m currently trying to make things work by having the gun as a Skeletal Mesh component, but I’m now having trouble getting a proper cast to the weapon’s BP.
This is where I’m trying to set the gun as my character’s Sidearm variable. Before, I was able to cast to the weapon’s BP using the “FP Weapon Old” and getting “Child Actor” from that as the object. That doesn’t work anymore since it’s no longer a Child Actor component, and while both “Get Parent Actor” and “Get Owner” appear valid as objects at time of compile, attempting to fire the weapon and access anything in the gun’s BP gives me the error of “Accessed None trying to read property Sidearm” in this part.
Help?
