[Feature Request] Get all variables of category from Actor

Development Programming & Scripting
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I think that it would be useful to include a method every variable of a particular category from a specified actor.

It will be a node with an actor input and a category drop-down selection that adapts to the Actor attached to the input.
The node will take the actor reference, get its class and derive a list of variables that are of the selected category. Changing the category will change the list of output nodes.

I believe that this can help in cases such as the implementation of an Actor that serves as a container for global variables.

For example; another Actor referring to the container Actor could use the aforementioned node to get a list of boolean variables of a category that is relevant.

Due to the necessity of casting, I am not sure if such a node will be easy to implement.

Mockup:

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I use structs to store my stats together like that.

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Since when you break a struct you can turn individual categories on or off it makes it very easy to organise and get specific values that is needed.

I can’t speak for how performant it is, I haven’t noticed any real hit, someone might want to correct me though.

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Gameplay tags might also be able to be used for this kind of thing but I have no experience with them, and I don’t think they have full integration on Actors yet.