Geting the parent of an actor

[gonso]

How can I get a pointer to the parent of the actor given a pointer to the actor?
It seems that there is no ->parent member in the Actor struct.

[savvy]

that post makes no sense to me, i could probably help you but...can you expand and simplify please, and tell us exactly what the problem is.

[DilloDude]

I'm pretty sure you can't. However, you could create another actor variable to store the parent (such as a string - store the parent's clonename, and use getclone).

[Game A Gogo]

the only thing you can do is something like

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DestroyActor("Parent Actor");

so you can use Parent Actor in any function that needs the string of the actor name.

But, you can't do

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parent.x=5;

it won't give you errors, but it won't work either

[gonso]

I was trying to store the Actor's parent in a global variable when the actor is created, so that I can access it later even in sombody elses event.
I will look for another way to do it.
Thanks