How to prevent editor from renaming objects

Development Programming & Scripting
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Hi,

How can I prevent UE editor from renaming objects ? For example - I have some objects that have TopDownCharacter blueprint. The blueprint itself has a number of components. If I change something inside the blueprint, like maybe values on one of the components, it seems that the editor recompiles the objects, but it also renames them. So for example if I had named a character “Player” previously, after this it will change it’s ID name to TopDownCharacter_C_2 for example (but it leaves it’s editor label as “Player” - I don’t care about that one though, I use “ID name” in code). Some of my logic depends on certain characters having a specific name (for example - it needs to persist that it has seen a certain character, etc, and it does this by name), so I’d like to prevent this from happening. Any ideas ? Thanks

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Hey -

The easiest solution that comes to mind would be to use a child of the blueprint you’re editing. So if your blueprint is “Player” then you can create “Player_child” to use in the game. Anytime you need to change something in the blueprint you can change Player without having to touch Player_child. This should allow you to make changes without having to worry about the name of your object changing. The downside to this option would be the extra assets necessary.

Cheers

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Interesting. Ok, I’ll try that. Thanks once again!