Spawning blueprint actor from C++ fails

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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I made a projectile class, which is basically for now the same thing as the projectile in the twin stick shooter demo project. I then made a blueprint that derived from it. I’d like to be able to spawn this blueprint but every time I try to do a SpawnActor it returns NULL. In the header of the file I’m trying to do this in, I have declared:

class UBlueprint* HeavyProjectileActor;

In the constructor for it, I have:

struct FConstructorStatics
{
	ConstructorHelpers::FObjectFinder<UBlueprint> HeavyProjectileRef;

	FConstructorStatics() :
		HeavyProjectileRef(TEXT("Blueprint'/Game/Blueprints/B_Heavy_Projectile.B_Heavy_Projectile'"))
	{
	}
};
static FConstructorStatics ConstructorStatics;

HeavyProjectileActor = ConstructorStatics.HeavyProjectileRef.Object;

And in the part where I’m trying to spawn the actor I do this:

AActor* a = World->SpawnActor(HeavyProjectileActor->GetClass(), &SpawnLocation, &FireRotation);

(SpawnLocation and FireRotation are set up above it). The projectile is never added and the return result from SpawnActor is NULL.

My guess is I screwed up how I’m trying to get the blueprint reference. Please note that when I break at that line and view the contents of HeavyProjectileActor it’s not NULL and appears to be populated with valid data.

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OK after some sleep I figured it out. For one, I needed to declare the variable as a UClass* not a UBlueprint*. I then changed line 12 in the previous code block I pasted to:

HeavyProjectileActor = ConstructorStatics.HeavyProjectileRef.Object->GeneratedClass;

Note that it’s just appending ->GeneratedClass to what used to be there.

Then for spawning, I just simply pass in HeavyProjectileActor rather than HeavyProjectileActor->GetClass().