Bad location of other objects given in Construction Script

I have a map of hexes of the same blueprint class, which either:

  • are of a specified type
  • or calculate the type automatically, depending on their neighbours.

To find neighbours, I’m getting the location of all hexes on a level and check if the distance between current hex and the other is smaller than 3300 units.
If I do it by a straight reference, I’m given bad locations - though it happens only in Simulate/Play. In editor, everything is OK. It doesn’t matter if the blueprint uses Get Distance or subtraction of vectors.

The workaround, which solves the problem, is to store the location of self in a variable. Then all the hexes query that variable, instead of using Get Distance or retrieving the location directly.

Here’s a thread on UE4 : https://.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?4124-Construction-script-behaves-differently-in-editor-than-in-Simulate-(hex-map)&p=26795

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