Modifying components of parent blueprint

Development Programming & Scripting Blueprint
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Let’s say I have a blueprint which contains a sphere component, used as a detection range.

I want to make a child blueprint with a different detection range. But in the blueprint editor, all components belonging to the parent blueprint are hidden.

I know I can make a variable and change the sphere radius in the construction script, but is this the intended way of achieving this?

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You can modify properties of native components (ie those added in C++) in a child Blueprint, but currently you cannot directly modify defaults for components added in a parent Blueprint. Your solution of using the construction script is the best way to do this at the moment, but this is something we would like to support in future.

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Thanks James!