[SOLVED] Having issues with my Enum for setting the Death Pose

[soft saddle]

My symptom is I am never making it to the death pose. Seems the enum is not changing in the editor or from code (I verified this with UE_LOG and via this BP in the threadsafe update and using UE_Log in the Die Function. (Picture attached) But the die function is successfully getting called and the switch is working that feeds the section name into the death montage and the death animation plays, the only thing that doesn't work is the death pose.

Below is all the relevant code for what I am doing.

First here is my charactertypes.h which is indeed in the Character folder (I know this varies from the course content, I just accidentally left the S out when I made the folder). This is where I declare the enum class EDeathPose.

…UENUM(BlueprintType)
enum class EDeathPose : uint8
{
    EDP_Alive UMETA(DisplayName = "Alive"),
    EDP_Death1 UMETA(DisplayName = "Death1"),
    EDP_Death2 UMETA(DisplayName = "Death2"),
    EDP_Death3 UMETA(DisplayName = "Death3"),
    EDP_Death4 UMETA(DisplayName = "Death4"),
    EDP_Death5 UMETA(DisplayName = "Death5")
};```
Here are my relevant declarations in my Enemy header file.
```c++     
#include "Character/CharacterTypes.h"

protected:

        void Die();

        UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite)
    EDeathPose EndingDeathPose = EDeathPose::EDP_Alive;

    UPROPERTY(BlueprintReadWrite)
    EDeathPose EndingDeathPose = EDeathPose::EDP_Alive;

private:
        UPROPERTY(EditDefaultsOnly, Category= Montages)
    UAnimMontage* DeathMontage;
…

Here is my Die and GetHit_Implimentation Functions in the Enemy.cpp

{
    UAnimInstance* AnimInstance = GetMesh()->GetAnimInstance();
    if (AnimInstance && DeathMontage)
    {
        AnimInstance->Montage_Play(DeathMontage);
        const int32 Selection = FMath::RandRange(0,4);
        FName SectionName = FName();
        switch (Selection)
        {
        case 0:
            SectionName = FName("Death1");
            EndingDeathPose = EDeathPose::EDP_Death1;
            break;
        case 1:
            SectionName = FName("Death2");
            EndingDeathPose=EDeathPose::EDP_Death2;
            break;
        case 2:
            SectionName = FName("Death3");
            EndingDeathPose = EDeathPose::EDP_Death3;
            break;
        case 3:
            SectionName = FName("Death4");
            EndingDeathPose = EDeathPose::EDP_Death4;
            break;
        case 4:
            SectionName = FName("Death5");
            EndingDeathPose = EDeathPose::EDP_Death5;
            break;
        default:
            break;
        }
        AnimInstance->Montage_JumpToSection(SectionName, DeathMontage);
    }
}

void AEnemy::GetHit_Implementation(const FVector& ImpactPoint)
{
    //DRAW_SPHERE_COLOR(ImpactPoint, FColor::Purple);
    if (Attributes && Attributes->IsAlive())
    {
        DirectionalHitReact(ImpactPoint);
    }
    else
    {
        Die();
    }

    if (HitSound)
    {
        UGameplayStatics::PlaySoundAtLocation(
        this, HitSound, ImpactPoint
        );
    }
    if (HitParticles)
    {
        UGameplayStatics::SpawnEmitterAtLocation(
        GetWorld(),
        HitParticles,
        ImpactPoint
        );
    }
}```


With all that being said, I feel like the real culprit could be in the editor somehow? I have been banging m head against it for some hours now though. SOS.

[soft saddle]

Ok! I figured out some good stuff

The enum is working and being changed

finally got my UE_LOG statment right

GEngine->AddOnScreenDebugMessage(-1, 8.F, FColor::Yellow, *UEnum::GetDisplayValueAsText(EndingDeathPose).ToString());

when I run this I see the ENum being changed. So its just not updating inside the engine to the local variable

So now that I know that the enum is being changed I have to figure out why the property access isn't working when I try to cast to the enemy character

My god, after all that, I figured out it was just that I accidentally broke the node that does the initial cast to the BP_Enemy

You live and you learn!

If anyone ever runs into the same issue, its quite important you do the cast before you try to actually access an attribute from it, hahahaha.

[SOLVED] Having issues with my Enum for setting the Death Pose